Re: Custom session save handler. What's happens really?

You have to explicitly serialize and unserialize the objects. I think the confusion here is with the automatic __wakeup and __sleep functions: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/Using-the-Sleep-and-Wakeup-Functions-to-Serialize-Objects-in-PHP/ -- itoctopus - http://www.itoctopus.com <n.quirin@free.fr> wrote in message news:1178263604.463ae03437fd5@imp.free.fr... > Hi, > > i'm using in each script: > > <? > session_set_save_handler(...); //register my custom function to store > session > //into a mysql database > > session_start(); //session.auto_start is set to 0 in php.ini > register_shutdown("session_write_close"); > > $object = unserialize($_SESSION['objectname']); > //modify the object > //.... > $_SESSION['objectname'] = serialize($object); > ?> > > When are exactly called the write and read function of my custom handler? > Is it at the session_start that read function is called? > or is it at $object = unserialize($_SESSION['objectname'])? > > Is write function called at session_write_close only? > or any time $_SESSION[] is writted? > > Thanks a lot, I have no clue from PHP tutorial about this...