Bridge session data between legacy Application and Symfony2

Question

Sorry if this question has been asked before I could not find it. I couldn\'t find the answer I was looking for.

I have a legacy application that I\'m rebuilding wit

Answer 1

What you are looking at there is sample code for the Component that symfony uses. Symfonys session is initialized from parameters set in to app/config.yml. The component instructions are only if you are using the component outside of symfony. The one you want is the first one. However using:

#app/config.yml
framework:
    session:
        storage_id: session.storage.php_bridge
        handler_id: session.handler.native_file

Is meant to be used if you are including symfony within your other application where session_start() is being called before symfony is instantiated. I havent tested this but it may still work having them run in parallel but you may end up having to do some customization to the session handler.

Maybe look into using a pdo session handler: http://symfony.com/doc/current/cookbook/configuration/pdo_session_storage.html