Sessions question

[dantexxx]

Hi.

I am trying to setup a session so that a page will only create one instance of an object. I don't want a new object created everytime the person refreshes the page.. instead I want to save the object in a session and then reload it on refresh.

The code I'm trying to use is:

if($SESSION["SESSION_SYSTEM"]){
$system = unserialize($SESSION["SESSION_SYSTEM"]);
}else{
$system = NEW systemFuncs($_SESSION["SESSION_USERNAME"]);
session_register("SESSION_SYSTEM");
$SESSION_SYSTEM = $system;
}

But this doessn't seem to load the object back if the session already exsists.

What am I doing wrong??

[remote2]

this is what the PHP documantation says...

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session_register() accepts a variable number of arguments, any of which can be either a string holding the name of a variable or an array consisting of variable names or other arrays. For each name, session_register() registers the global variable with that name in the current session.

Caution
This registers a global variable. If you want to register a session variable from within a function, you need to make sure to make it global using the global keyword or the $GLOBALS[] array, or use the special session arrays as noted below.

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so i think you'll need to defined a global variable first...
then register it..

1. you didn't defined variable first..
2. you didn't use global

[keith73]

if you want to put a variable into the session and you are using $SESSION, do this way:

$_SESSION['SESSION_SYSTEM'] = NEW systemFuncs($_SESSION["SESSION_USERNAME"]);

Also, where are you initializing your session? I think that before you do anything with the session, you may need to do a session_start(). This would have to be initialized before any output goes to the browser.

from the manual on php.net
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-register.php
Caution

If you are using $_SESSION (or $HTTP_SESSION_VARS), do not use session_register(), session_is_registered() and session_unregister().