Re: serializing references, almost without modifications

thies@digicol.de wrote: > hmm - how do you want to serialize resources then > (db-connections, open-files etc). if the whole argue is about > completeness you _need_ to take those into consideration! > also: what happens to "outside" references (references that > point to variables that are no serialized)? In general this problem cannot be solved automatically. Some ressources have a state that cannot be controlled by PHP or the Zend engine completely. The canonical example is a file handle ressource refering to a TCP socket. You must write a __sleep() and __wakeup() function to serialize and unserialize this ressource properly, and it can be arbitrarily hard to do this. There is no general solution for this problem except providing such sleep and wakeup handlers. Kristian -- Kristian Köhntopp, NetUSE AG Siemenswall, D-24107 Kiel Tel: +49 431 386 436 00, Fax: +49 431 386 435 99 Using PHP3? See our web development library at http://phplib.netuse.de/