Fun with sessions

[nemesis1931]

Hello everyone. Hope all is well.

I need help figuring out why my object is not persisting via sessions.. I have searched the boards and google and havent found anything useful.. take a look

#user.lib.php
 require_once(LIB_SSS); #session_start() located here..
 require_once(NEW_USER); #$user = & new User() here..

function ini_user(){
	global $user;
	if(isset($_SESSION['user'])){
                #if session set get saved user..
		$user = $_SESSION['user'];
	}else{
                #else get default user guest
		$_SESSION['user'] =$user;
	}
	return $user;
}

#get_start - returns timestamp of when user was authenticated
#get_life - returns number of minutes before timeout
function timeout(){
	global $user;

echo "time:". time() . "<br>";
echo "start:". $user->get_start() . "<br>";
echo "pass:". time() - $user->get_start()  . "<br>";
echo "life:". $user->get_life()*60 . "<br><br>";

if(time() - $user->get_start() <= $user->get_life()*60){
	echo "Session Timeout<br>";

}else{
	echo "Session still valid". time() - $user->get_start()."<br>";
}

}

function authenticate($u,$p){
#... queries a db to populate the fields of the $user object
#and sets the start time.
}

now the driver file

#driver.php
#includes user.lib.php ..

$user = ini_user();

if($user->get_name()=="Guest"){
	authenticate("user01","mypass");
	echo "Authenticated..<br>";
}else{
	echo "Already set<br>";
}

$user->dump();
timeout();

when I do this the timeout() function always is .. timed out because the user is always guest evertime the page is called, but
B23
it should be the authenticated user ..

any ideas? or do I need to make some clarifications..?

[dalecosp]

Is this all the script<s>? Where's session_start()? 😕

[nemesis1931]

session_start() is included into the user.lib.php file via require_once ..

#.... from my post
#user.lib.php 
 require_once(LIB_SSS); #session_start() located here.. 
 require_once(NEW_USER); #$user = & new User() here.. 


#LIB_SSS is a constant that points to the session.lib.php file
#which contains session_start()

from what i see im not sure if you can save an object to the $_SESSION global, i mean its working with variables but the $user object i created is not persisting...

[dalecosp]

Originally posted by nemesis1931
from what i see im not sure if you can save an object to the $_SESSION global, i mean its working with variables but the $user object i created is not persisting...

Aye, that's the rub. AFAIK, OOP doesn't work there, at least not in v4 ....