Re: Serializing objects and storing them is sessions [fixed]

Apr 9 at 1:44am, Jason Giangrande wrote: > Jason Giangrande wrote: > > I'm having a problem unserializing objects that are passed from page to > > page with sessions. Registered globals is disabled so I am using the > > $_SESSION array to store session variable > > > > When I var_dump() $_SESSION it appears to be a string representation of > > the object. However, when I try to unserialize() it and store it in > > $auth the value is bool(false) and not an object. > > > > Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? > > Don't I feel stupid now. I have solved my problem. I had written a > __sleep() function that I had forgotten about, and as it turns out, it > was breaking things. Not really sure why. It was just creating the > array of object properties to be serialized. Commenting it out fixes > the problem I was having. You shouldn't serialize() objects prior to assign to a session variable. The default session handler automatically serializes the data. Assigning a serialized object value to a session just adds redundancy and overhead. The only caveat: the class must be defined prior to session_start(), for the same reason a class needs to be defined prior to unserializing. http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.serialization.php --Kelly