Re: Serializing objects, using __sleep and __wakeup?

Hi David! 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. I remember Thies(?) posting an example of how they work. Also another cool function is __string_value, something like toString() is Java or JavaScript. I played with it: http://teo.digiro.net/devel/php/libdev/test/test_serwddx.phps http://teo.digiro.net/devel/php/libdev/test/test_serial.phps -- teodor