Re[2]: [PHP] Serializing a DOM object

Hi, Tuesday, December 31, 2002, 2:55:39 AM, you wrote: >> In the test function, if I just serialize the $xml, return it and then call >> xmldoc_open_mem on the unserialized return string, it works fine. >> But it doesn't like it if I do the above. I'm getting the error: >> >> Warning: dump_mem() [function.dump-mem]: Underlying object missing >> or of invalid type >> Warning: dump_mem() [function.dump-mem]: Cannot fetch DOM object >> >> Why isn't the serialization of the DOM object not working that way? CB> I just had a thought... Is it because the DOM structure of the XML document CB> is stored only in the memory for the page? And the pointer to that memory CB> isn't transferred when the DOM object is serialized, stored and retrieved? CB> Chris Try encoding like this: $retval = base64_encode(serialize( domxml_open_mem( $xml ))); and on the next page: $xml = unserialize(base64_decode($xml)); It works via html but don't know enough about soap -- regards, Tom