#49622 [NEW]: allow usage of json and/or php standard serialize format for sessions

From: giunta dot gaetano at gmail dot com Operating system: !important PHP version: 5.3.0 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: allow usage of json and/or php standard serialize format for sessions Description: ------------ The current session_decode() function is good when the user needs to decode a serialized session string, but it - needs to have session_start() called beforehand - has an impact on the current session state A lot of comments in the php man pages for unserialize() and session_decode() are from users trying to write a preg_ based decoder of session data (and failing). A new function that session_decode_to_array() that - returned the deserialized data as an array - did not impact current session state would imho be quite useful (or adding a flag param to the existing function, to the same effect) Since this feat. request has already been filed and closed as bogus (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42725), what I am proposing here is slightly different: besides 'wddx' and 'php', allow usage of 'json' and 'serialize' as native serialization formats for session data - the latter corresponding to the native serialize function. If there is some information loss involved in using those two formats (ie. references), just make it clear in the docs. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=49622&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=49622&r=mysqlcfg