Re: Strange problem with objects

Never mind, I just found and exceptable work around. $GLOBALS["session"] & $GLOBALS["document"] contain the objects. (and after all that typing :) -Evan On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:21:32PM -0400, Evan said: > Hey all, > > I'm having a strange problem with objects that I'm hoping someone out there can > help me track down. I'll give a run down of the setup here, please note that > register_globals is off. > > A page creates two objects. > > $document - this is always a new object and uses the ob_ functions to control > the output. ob_start is called with a customer callback that writes the output > to a file based on $_SERVER variables. > > $session - this is an object that gets serialized whenever a request finishes > and unserialized when the request begins. > > Each object uses register_shutdown_function(array($this, "desconstructor")) to > set a hook to clean up after itself which works without problems. > > The following is then set. > $document->session =& $session; > $session->document =& $document; > > Everything works fine through out the page all properties of the session can be > accessed and set via $session->whatever or $document->session->whatever and vice > versa for the $document object. > > The problem arises when the $document->deconstructor function is called. As > described above the ob_ callback fires and properly writes the captured output > to a file then calls ob_end_clean() to dump the buffer and returns nothing, then > right after the deconstructor function is called which does the following: > include("a header file.php"); > include("the temp file from ob_"); > include("a footer file.php"); > unlink("the temp file from ob_"); > > Now this works beautifully, except that some of the object properties get > destoryed. For instance since the includes are called from > $document->deconstructor it makes sense that $this should reference the document > object and that $this->session should reference the session object, but the > following happens. In the file I have this: > > $this is a <?=get_class($this)?><br> > $tihs->session is a <?get_class($this->session)?><br> > > Which returns: > > $this is a rj_document > $this->session is a > > > Now I thought that it might be because the session object is destroyed before > the document object fires its deconstructor call so when the objects are > associated I changed the document line to be: > $document->session = $session > But I get the same results. > > > Anyone have any insight? > > > Thanks, > Evan > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >