session variable within class function

dphoenix

Background info: the application I'm working on has register globals enabled. session_register is used to establish the session variable at the top of every page (via included file). The question:

How do i access that session variable from within a class? I've been doing some reading and all I've determined is that using session variables within classes is tricky businesses. Any help would be appreciated!

ahundiak

Just use the global keyword for each variable in each function

class Foo
{
  function bar()
  {
    global $name;

echo $name;
  }
}

Where $name is a session variable. Tedious but not really tricky. If you do want to get tricky then store all the session variables in a single object. Then you only need one global statement per function to get at all your session data.

plaggypig

i prefer to use the super global variable $_SESSION. it's much more straight forward than messing around with session_register(). for example:

session_start();
$_SESSION['foo'] = 'bar';

there you have it. with super globals theres no need to globalise it within functions/methods either:

class foo
{
function foo()
{
$_SESSION['foo'] = 'bar';
}
}

cool aye

andy.

dphoenix

Just use the global keyword for each variable in each function

Apparently that does not cut it within a class function. I've tried every possible syntactical variation of it (ie, "global $varname;" "global $_SESSION;" etc...)

Have you gotten it to work that way, or were you just assuming? I'm tearing my hair out over here!

dphoenix

i prefer to use the super global variable $_SESSION.

Unfortunately I don't really have that choice; this is a huge application and I don't have time to go thru replacing old session calls. Was hoping to figure it out without resorting to that (especially since I'm not sure it'll fix my problem within the class anyway!)