Re: Sessions and Objects

Couple of us have been asking them to fix this crap for a while, but they're not even responding. Best thing we've come up with thus far is to say "if (session_is_registered)" and then write a copy methind. myClass1 = new classMine; if (session_is_registered("session_Mine" { myClass1->Load($session_Mine); } This doesn't fix your std_class problem, and in trying to replicate it, if I put the declarations BEFORE session_start() then I get problems trying to import my objects (says they're std_class). You COULD just put the class declarations into a single file, much like an stdafx.h file for windows programmers and then include THAT in every program. It does suck that PHP's so "dumb" about classes in a session. Major flaw, IMHO, and really limits the whole idea of classes and pseudo-state session session objects. -Szii At 04:56 PM 6/16/00 -0700, James Du Russel wrote: >When PHP 4 restores objects from a session, if the class is not defined, >the object type reverts to 'stdClass' As long as session_start() >happens belows class definitions, the code works fine. > >Here's the problem. Page A creates an object of some type, and stores >it into the session. The user works with page A for a while, then moves >over to page B. Page B has no requirement for the object created by >page A, but the session data is required (for the logged in user object) > >When page B loads the session data, it finds an object it does not >recognize, and thus sets its type to stdClass. When page B is finished, >it stores the object back into the session, as stdClass! If the user >goes back to page A, the methods on the object are gone, and lo the page >is broken! > >As an alternative to loading the code for an entire site, I'm >considering all manner of really ugly serialize/ereg/unserialize tricks >to work around this. Does anyone have an suggestions for a workaround. > > > >For the phpdev people, can someone fix this? Better behavior would be >to preserve the class name, but probably means a lot of internal hacks. > >Alternatly, can someone write (I've asked for this before) a simple >function to force an object into a certain type? It would also be nice >for it to return the current/old type of an object as well. I envision >it something like this... > >string object_type(object ob, [string newtype]) > >James > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net >For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net >To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > >