#27555 [Com]: Unable to modify $_SESSION from __destruct()

ID: 27555 Comment by: jasper at bryant-greene dot name Reported By: jaanus at heeringson dot com Status: No Feedback Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: Linux 2.4.24 PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-03-10 (dev) Assigned To: helly New Comment: This is definitely a bug, and needs to be fixed. As has been mentioned before, all user-definable methods need to have all resources available to them, including the session module, mysqli module, etc. Rather than just saying "the destructor is called too late in the shutdown process" and leaving it at that, why not fix it? Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-07-07 09:12:56] richard dot quadling at bandvulc dot co dot uk As classes are instatiated by a user, their destructing should be within the users control OR at least before the script terminates and module "tidying-up" takes place. I think this is actually a PHP bug. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2005-07-07 07:47:35] aristotle at brettia dot com I have a legitimate reason for wanting __destruct methods to be called before the session module is finalized. I have a session wrapper class that uses an internal array to keep session data separate from $_SESSION until the destruction of the class. The class' __destruct method is supposed to copy its internal array back to $_SESSION so that it can be saved. This is not possible with the current order. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-08-02 01:00:06] phpdoc at lists dot php dot net No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-25 21:11:19] helly@php.net Please try using this CVS snapshot: http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz For Windows: http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-07-08 05:17:08] mikey-spam at mookins dot com I am on Windows 2000, using PHP5 RC3. Having same problems. I also believe that the modules should be shutdown after __destruct() I am wondering if this is going to be fixed or is it not being classified as a bug? helly@php.net seems to think it's expected behaviour but I never thought it would be which is why I am here after googling about it. __destruct() is a user definable method. All aspects of user programs should have all the resources available to them from the start of the script right through to the end. Refcounting of whatever it was that they suggested is not an option, in fact, I don't even know what that is. -Mikey ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/27555 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=27555&edit=1