Yii session management

Question

I am trying to set some session variable in Yii using the following code : ``` $session=new CHttpSession; $session->open() ; $session->setSessionName('My Session') ; $session['sleep'] = 0 ; $session['attempts'] = 0 ; $session->writeSession('sleep','0') ; $session['ip'] = $this->get_ip_address() ; $session->close() ; var_dump($session,$session['ip']) ; ``` However , I am not able to set the session vaiables above , the dump has the following result : ``` object(CHttpSession)#17 (5) { ["autoStart"]=> bool(true) ["behaviors"]=> array(0) { } ["_initialized":"CApplicationComponent":private]=> bool(false) ["_e":"CComponent":private]=> NULL ["_m":"CComponent":private]=> NULL } string(3) "::1" ``` It sees $session and $session['ip'] as two completely different variables . Can someone help me out with this ?

Accepted Answer

I work with sessions under Yii in another way, I use the global session variable under the app() variable. So you can store values like this:

```
Yii::app()->session['sleep'] = "value";
```

And you can get values like this:

```
$sleep = Yii::app()->session['sleep'];
```

Finally you can remove it like this:

```
unset(Yii::app()->session['sleep']);
```

This way you can access them everywhere in your code. I recommend you to read this article: http://www.larryullman.com/2011/05/03/using-sessions-with-the-yii-framework/ it has all the information that you need.

Yii session management

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