Storing a model instance as a service during the session

Hey man

You just to set seesion after user login, then you can call anywhere here exmpale in my project

    try {
            if ($this->request->isPost()) {
                if (!$form->isValid($this->request->getPost())) {
                    foreach ($form->getMessages() as $message) {
                        $this->flashSession->error($message->getMessage());
                    }
                } else {
                    $object = User::findByEmailOrUsername($this->request->getPost('email'));
                    if ($object && $object->getStatus() == $object::STATUS_ACTIVE) {
                        if (!$this->security->checkHash($this->request->getPost('password'), $object->getPasswd())) {
                            $this->flashSession->error(t('Wrong email/password combination!'));
                        } else {
                            // @TODO : try to make just one query with innerjoin.
                            $role         = $object->getRole();
                            $auth         = $object->toArray();
                            $auth['role'] = $role->toArray();
                            $auth['avatar'] = $object->getAvatar();

                            $this->session->set('auth', $auth);
                            $object->setLastLogin(date('Y-m-d H:i:s'));
                            $object->save();

                            if (!$this->request->getHttpReferer()) {
                                $this->response->redirect();
                            } else {
                                $this->response->redirect($this->request->getHttpReferer());
                            }

                        }
                    } elseif ($object && $object->getStatus() != User::STATUS_ACTIVE) {
                        $this->flashSession->error(
                            t('User status is: ') . $object->getStatusesWithLabels()[$object->getStatus()]
                        );
                    } else {
                        $this->flashSession->error(t('User doesn\'t exist !'));
                    }
                }
            }
        } catch (\Exception $e) {
            $this->flashSession->error($e->getMessage());
        }

@Thein

Thanks, but I need the user profile as an instanse of Model not as an array. I also tried

                 $this->getDI()->setShared('user',$userModel);

but this does not keep the user's data.

I also tried the following code, without success:

   $this->getDI()->setShared('user', function () {
                  return User::findFirst($this->session->auth);
                  });

 $this->getDI()->setShared('user', function () {
                return User::findFirst($this->session->auth);
                });

The trouble with that is $this resolution. Inside your function, $this doesn't refer to anything. Try adding a use clause:

$auth_token = $this->session->auth;
$this->getDI()->setShared('user', function () use($auth_token) {
    return User::findFirst($auth_token);
});

_I feel like one should be able to do this: use($this->session->auth as $auth_token), but I've not been able to find any documentation around it - so I may just be inventing stuff in my head._

@quasipickle

Thanks, however this does not work for me.$this->di["user"] returns a new user (all fields are empty.)

setShared() is supposed to work https://docs.phalcon.io/en/latest/reference/di.html#shared-services

Are you sure $this->di["user"] returns a brand new User object every time? Perhaps the User object is being initialized as an empty object, then that empty object is being returned every time.

Try putting this in the closure:

echo $auth_token;
exit();

And maybe output some values from the expected object before exit()ing - just to make sure the object being retrieved is what you expect.

Hi all,

nice and elegant solution. Thanks !