can you register an array in session?

[fredriksk]

Hello all

Just wondering...

Can you register a array as an session variable?

I have an array I call $user_info. I want this one to be accessable threw all pages so I want to register it as an session variable...

I have tried this...

session_start();
session_register('user');

function set_userinfo(){
   $user_info = mysql_fetch_array($result);
}

and on another page I try this....

session_start();
print $user_info['username'];

But I can´t get this to work.... =(

Please help!

[steadyguy]

Register the array with the variable name, then access it by the same variable name:

//script 1
$myArray = array('blah', 'blah', 'blah');
session_start();
session_register('myArray');

//script 2
session_start();
//now use the variable $myArray as if you were still in script 1

[LordShryku]

session_register is a bad idea though....

From http://www.php.net/session_register

If you want your script to work regardless of register_globals, you need to instead use the $SESSION array as $SESSION entries are automatically registered. If your script uses session_register(), it will not work in environments where the PHP directive register_globals is disabled.