Re: persistent sign on for Zend Server

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry:

Are you trying to use that user and profile for database access?  If you 
are using the framework you can always use the application.ini file to 
store the profile/password so you would not need to prompt for it.  IE:

[database]
db.adapter = "Db2"
db.params.username = "MYUSER"
db.params.password = "MYPASSWORD"
db.params.dbname = "RDBNAME"
db.params.host = "HOST.ACCESS.ADDRESS"
db.params.driver_options.i5_lib = "LIBRARY"
db.params.os="i5"

You can override the library and database names in your code if needed; 
IE:  protected $_name = 'BUGS'; sets the database name as "BUGS".

You can just use the framework to set up your database access and use 
procedural PHP for most of the application if you want.  The Framework 
would provide the ability to mimic record level access as well so if you 
don't know SQL, you would not have to use it in your PHP!

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects, LLC


On 3/3/2011 1:18 PM, Larry Kleinman wrote:
> Using Zend Server, I would like to present a sign-on screen where the user
> enters a user ID and password to be used as the parms of the i5_connect
> function.  This is not hard, but I want to present that screen only once,
> and use that info as the user moves from screen to screen, all of which
> will require a 15_connection.  I know that I can store the user and
> password entered as $_SESSION variables, but I don;t like the idea of the
> password being written to some place on the PC hard drive.  (That's how
> $_SESSION works, right?).  Any suggestions on how to deal with this.
>
> Larry Kleinman
> Kleinman Associates, Inc.
> 212-949-6469
> 203-255-4100