Object as a Session Variable ...

[Anon]

can i use an object as a session variable ...

danny

[Anon]

no

[Anon]

perhaps..

what you'd need to do is generate the code with which you could recreate the object and save that as a session variable string, updating it when the object is itself altered (or at the end of the script).

then, on the next page you can eval the string and recreate the object

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rad

[Anon]

I've managed to have a class in session and it actually wasn't any problem.

Example: (index.php and global.inc.php)
global has the functions I call, and also includes the class I use.

index.php
<?
include($DOCUMENT_ROOT."/inc/global.inc.php");

dbConnect(); //connects to db
getSession(); //startsess() and sessid()
getDefaults();//globals some vars

//The page then has a login form and here's the login stuff:

if ($todo == "login") {
if (login($user_name, $password)) {
header("Location: $HTTP_REFERER");
exit();
}
}

if(checkSession()) {
$oUserUnserialized = unserialize($oUserSerialized);
echo $oUserUnserialized->user_id;
echo $oUser->getUserId();
} else {
echo "we don't have a session";
}
?>

Global.inc.php
<?
function getDefaults() {
global $oUser, $oUserSerialized;
}

The login function does some db accessinn and then:

$oUser = new User;
$oUser->setUserId($user_id);
$oUserSerialized = serialize($oUser);
session_register("oUser");
session_register("oUserSerialized");

getSession() {
session_start();
session_id();
}

checkSession just returns true if session_is_registered("some variable")
?>

So if you use serialize, then you don't have access to functions in the class. But you can access functions in the class if you don't serialize.

I didn't have no problems. I'm running this on Linux, Redhat with Php 4 or 4.01