Re: Re: mediator between PHP and Perl (with sessions)

Eli wrote: > It's quite easy to pass the session variables to the script. The problem > with sessions and shell PHP scripts, is that PHP doesn't support > sessions on that mode (CLI mode it is called). So, I would have to > manualy read the session file and parse it. If anyone knows what is the > exact function that is used to unserialize the session file, please > tell.. and it's not the unserialize() function in PHP. > > I guess that using a shell PHP script with sessions is not the solution. > Is anybody familiar with another way to use sessions??? but not through > web, since the script returns sensitive data. I THINK you MIGHT be able to use some session functions to set the session name and session file when you do session_start() and get PHP to do all the work of the reading/writing the files. You just need to pass in the session ID to session_name() or session_start() or something like that. I forget how to do this, but I did it once when I couldn't get trans-sid to work, and it was a one-line solution. Try to find it. Maybe session_id() takes an optional argument. If that fails, then here's option 2: There is sample code for storing your session data in MySQL on the web-site in the manual. You could easily take that code and swap out the MySQL bits to just read/write your own session files, or go ahead and use MySQL if it's okay security-wise, or put the data anywhere you feel appropriate for your application. If that's not auitable, to answer your original question :-) is Option 3: I think the session files consist of a series of variable names and serialized values separated by semi-colons or something like that. So to read/write the session files would be something not unlike: $data = file($session_file); $elements = explode(';', $data); while (list(, $element) = each($elements)){ list($var, $serialized) = explode(':', $element); $$var = unserialize($serialized); } -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm