Phalcon keep a model persistant in all the controllers? - oop

Question

my website application is mostly model around a User Model which has all the key data that needed for most of the times.
Once the user is logged into the website I would like to keep it as a persistent variable across all the controllers. How do i achieve this as i cannot use session to hold a class object of Type Model.
My application is based on phalcon. However any suggestions are welcome.

Answer 1

I suggest you to write a simple class for user authentication & other user data manipulation, i wrote this Component and using in my project :
use Phalcon\Mvc\User\Component;
class Auth extends Component {
public function login($credentials) {
if(!isset($credentials['email'],$credentials['password'])) {
return FALSE;
}
if($this->isAuthorized()) {
return true;
}
$user = Users::findFirstByEmail($credentials['email']);
if($user == false) {
//block user for seconds
return false;
}
if($this->security->checkHash($credentials['password'],$user->password) && $user->status == 1) {
$this->_saveSuccessLogin($user);
$this->_setUserLoginSession($user);
return true;
} else {
return false;
}
}
public function isAuthorized() {
return $this->session->has('auth');
}
public function logout() {
$this->session->remove('auth');
return true;
}
public function user($key = null) {
if(!$this->isAuthorized()) {
return null;
}
if(is_null($key)) {
return $this->session->get('auth');
} else {
$user = $this->session->get('auth');
return array_key_exists($key, $user) ? $user[$key] : null;
}
}
private function _saveSuccessLogin(Users $user){
$userLogin = new UserLogins();
$userLogin->user_id = $user->id;
$userLogin->ip = $this->request->getClientAddress();
$userLogin->user_agent = $this->request->getUserAgent();
$userLogin->dns = gethostbyaddr($userLogin->ip);
if(!$userLogin->save()) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
private function _setUserLoginSession(Users $user) {
if(!$user) {
return false;
}
$this->session->set('auth',array(
'id' => $user->id,
'firstname' => $user->firstname,
'lastname' => $user->lastname,
'email' => $user->email,
'role_id' => $user->role_id
));
return true;
}
}
And in my services.php added into DI with this code :
$di->setShared('auth', function () {
return new Auth();
});
So when i want to get user info i use this :
$this->auth->user('email')
Also you can add more functionality to this component & modify it.
I hope that's useful for You.

Answer 2

You can use memcached and save it as key => value:
userId => serialized User model