Question

my zend application uses multiple database connections, so i used the multidb resource to configure several connections in the application.ini file.

now i want to store the application sessions into the database, using Zend_Session_SaveHandler_DbTable, but i can’t find a way to specify which of those connections to use in order to access the database.

every examples i found on the net uses the db resource and relies on the default database adapter. unfortunately, the sessions have to be stored in a database which is not the default one…

how do i specify which db to use for storing session ?

Answer 1

although it is not specified in the Zend documentation, the constructor for the Zend_Session_SaveHandler_DbTable class accepts a parameter named db which specifies the database connection to use.

$db = $this->getPluginResource('multidb')->getDb('zend');
$config = array(
    'db'             => $db,
    'name'           => 'session',
    'primary'        => 'id',
    'modifiedColumn' => 'modified',
    'dataColumn'     => 'data',
    'lifetimeColumn' => 'lifetime'
);
Zend_Session::setSaveHandler(new Zend_Session_SaveHandler_DbTable($config));
Zend_Session::start();

i was not able to specfy those settings in the application.iniconfiguration file, though…