Add a Custom Session

Would you like to add a custom session type in Magento 2? Are the default session types not the best practice to store the data you need? Let's see how you can create a custom session type and also how to set, get and unset data from the session.

Session are widely used in Magento 2 storing user's data for further user. Sessions are storing the data on server side.

As is well known in Magento 2 you can find the following session types:

vendor/magento/module-catalog/Model/Session.php - Catalog Session Model
vendor/magento/module-newsletter/Model/Session.php - Newsletter Session Model
vendor/magento/module-persistent/Model/Session.php - Persistent Session Model
vendor/magento/framework/Message/Session.php - Message Session Model
vendor/magento/module-customer/Model/Session.php - Customer Session Model
vendor/magento/module-backend/Model/Session.php - Backend Session Model
vendor/magento/module-checkout/Model/Session.php - Checkout Session Model

To create now a custom session we will need to create session class which will extend to the SessionManager like below.

What the SessionManager needs is the custom storage class to pass it as an argument and it will be the MageVision\Blog43\Model\Session\Storage.

The custom storage class can be a virtulType of the type Magento\Framework\Session\Storage passing as argument the namespace storage name, which is our example is the blog43. All the above will be implemented in the di.xml file like below.

The full example as extension can be found here.

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Till next time!