Session Variables

[gamehack]

Hi all,

I just want to ask if anyone has any experience with saving object across sessions? Is it possible? Because according to the manual, sessions can only store arrays and primitive variables... Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Regards,
gamehack

[thorpe]

you migh want to look at the [man]serialize/man function.

[Drakla]

You have to [man]serialize[/man] the object, then unserialize it when you want to use it. There's a section in the manual especially concerning objects, so look that up.

[gamehack]

Thank you very much 😉

[halojoy]

Originally posted by Drakla
You have to [man]serialize[/man] the object, then unserialize it when you want to use it.
There's a section in the manual especially concerning objects, so look that up.

A little practical example wouldnt hurt.

// this is how you can use an object across a session
$_SESSION[ 'object' ] = serialize( $myobject );

// to recover
$myobject = unserialize( $_SESSION[ 'object' ] );

They say one picture tells a 1000 words

halojoy says one piece of php code tells more than 1000 words in an abstract description of how to code 🙂

[Drakla]

People learn better through doing than cut and pasting.