Question / issue about sessions

[sgirard84]

Hi,

I moved my booking website to latest version of Formwork. At same time, php is also updated to 8.3 from 7.x

There is a different behavior than the old site using php 7 and Formork 2.0.0-beta.4. I'm not sure if it's related to Formwork or php 8.x

My workflow is:

• Get and save booking data
• Keep the new reservation_id into a session variable using $_SESSION
• Redirect to Square payment page to take payement
• Square redirects again to my website
• I retrieve the reservation_id from session to update the payment info

The last step is no longer working. I always get error like 'array key not defined'

I make sure the session is started, I also added session_write_close before first redirect.

And I just tried to replace $_SESSION by Formwork built-in session using:
$this->app->request()->session()->set('reservation_id')
$this->app->request()->session()->save()
$this->app->request()->session()->get('reservation_id')

But same thing. When I'm going back the my site, the session variable is no longer there... like if it started a fresh new session..

Any idea ?

[sgirard84]

Closing. Found another solution.

[giuscris]

I'll check for sure this weekend why session is not working as expected.
I'm not sure how could you use php 7.x with Formwork 2.0.0-beta.4 since it already required php >= 8.3.
What other solution do you use now?

[giuscris]

Where did you add the code to access the session from $this->app->request()?
In a plugin controller?

[sgirard84]

Yeah I think I was using a pre 2.0 version. My bad.

And yep, using this from a plugin controller.

[giuscris]

Can I ask what solution you found?
I've quickly tried with the session from the app request and it works fine.

[sgirard84]

Actually I realized that Squre API already creates the orderID before I redirect the client to their site. So I don't need sessions at all, I simply already store this order ID on the page field. And when client is back on my site, I can use the order ID to link my record.