Eirik Hoem’s Blog

I’ve made a profile module for Prado that lets you store user preferences etc in a database. I got the idea from the ASP.net Profile classes (visit) . At the moment the module uses SQL-Lite as storage engine, but I plan on adding support for XML and SQL databases. The module overrides PHP’s “magic methods” __get and __set, which makes access to the keys really easy. I’ve submitted this to the Prado TRAC asking them to add it to the framework. The code could use some cleaning.
Usage:

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$this->Profile->SomeSetting = “some value”; // creates the key SomeSetting for the current user ID with the value “some value”
$foo = $this->Profile->SomeSetting; // retrieves the value of SomeSetting for the current user ID

The first version is available here. I plan on refactoring it a bit to make sure it can be used with different kinds of user setups.