How Session variables are stored?

ghornet

Hello I am writing a program that stores session variables based on forms through about 7 pages, on the last page for testing purposes I am outputing all the session data to the screen, when I use

$test = session_encode();

and then echo $test out I get the following

it works fine ID = "23423424"

what does the |s:8: mean? and why is it |s:1: sometimes. Is this some kind of session delimitor? and why does it change?
Is their an easier way to explode all of the session variables into an array for easy insertion into a DB.

Thanks everyone.

Anon

It looks like it is the length of the string. i.e. "23423424" is 8 chars long, "5" is 1 char long.

Diego

ghornet

Very good observation, you are correct. Now how do I get rid of them (:

If I use the following

$test = session_encode();
$pieces = explode (";", $test);
//echo $test;
$j = "1";
foreach($pieces as $i)
{
echo $j . " " . $i . "<br>";
$j++;
}

This is what I get

So close to what I want (:

Damian

Anon

You mean you want to produce something like

$i=0;
foreach($HTTP_SESSION_VARS as $var=>$val)
{ echo ($i++).' '.$var.'|'.$val;
}