Re: Serializing objects, using __sleep and __wakeup?

On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, David Eriksson wrote: > > I have a few classes in my CORBA extension, and I want them to work > transparently with PHP:s session management, they need to be serializable. > > Right now I believe that value.obj.properties is serialized, but there I > just store an index to a list of internal data... (like the COM extension) > > I looked in ext/session/session.c and ext/standard/var.c and it seems like > it is possible to make member functions called __sleep and __wakeup, which > might be what I need. > > Can anyone explain how these work? I have not been able to find any docs > or examples that explain this. __sleep() is called when the object is being serialized. It's supposed to return an array of names of object properties that should be serialized. __wakeup() is called after all the object properties have been deserialized/instantiated. It should be used for any additional initialization, if necessary. -Andrei * 2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large values of 2. *