Storing a Model in Session/Registry and then accessing

harlow · #1 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 06:07 AM

I'm playing around with accessing variables in ZF and was wondering if I am going about this right. Essentially I want to store a Model in session. The model in this case will be the class "Cart".

Bootstrap:

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# cart namespace

$cart = new Zend_Session_Namespace('cart');

if(!isset($cart->_data)) $cart->_data = new Cart;



# registry

$registry = Zend_Registry::getInstance();

$registry->set('cart', $cart->_data);

This essentially works pretty well for me, except I find it a bit weird having to create the extra variable "->_data" within the namespace. Normally in PHP I'd just do something like this

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if(!isset($_SESSION['cart'])) $_SESSION['cart'] = new Cart;

My main question is whether the extra variable "->_data" is needed. There doesn't seem to be much of a way to just set the namespace 'cart' = new Cart.

Then I access it like this in any of the controllers:

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$cart = Zend_Registry::get('cart');

Again this is all working ok for me. I'm just a nooob on the ZF so I'm wondering if there is a "Zend" way to do this?

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