User->Setstate Vs Session

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi All

I want to reserve data among the user requests (like a shopping card does)

What is the difference between


Yii::app()->session['data1']='value1'  and  Yii::app()->user->setState('data1', 'value1');

what are the prons and cons and why/when use the one instead the other?

Thanks in advance

2

No one knows? :unsure:

3

Just look at the source code of those methods, one sets


$_SESSION['data1']

and the other sets


$_SESSION[md5('Yii.' . get_class($this) . '.' . Yii::app()->getId()) . 'data1']

So setState() will rarely conflict with other applications.

4

Hi @Tsunami and thanks for your response!

But I thing there is a more specific reason that Yii developers include both of two ways over the conflict issue.

So does anyone knows any other reason?

Thanks!

5

Can’t tell you their initial reason to provide CWebUser::setState(), but the method will not make it into yii 2. See issue #167 on github. It’s really only a tiny helper that handles key prefixing, and it seemingly causes too much confusion for what it’s worth.

6

Thanks Ben!

QiangXue, Samdark and Ragazzo gave enough information about that

The link was very useful! :)