Re: session_decode from session handler

On 7/22/07, Jeffery Fernandez <forums@jefferyfernandez.id.au> wrote:

On Sunday 22 July 2007 14:19, Jeffery Fernandez wrote: I have a similar problem I am facing with session data stored in the database from the set_session_handler. What I am trying to do is show a list of online users and the page they are currenlty viewing. For this purpose I am query the sessions table to get the list of session and from that I loop through to get the session data of each online user. But for some reason, I cannot decode/un-serialise the session data. Any pointers ? just following up on this problem. I am using PHP 5.2.3. I also do remember that previously in older versions of PHP, I used to see the session data was the actual serialised data. But now with my testing it just seems to be one long string. Which leads me to beleive that there is some kind of encoding taking place.

Please start a new thread about your problem, it might be related, but not the same. Tijnema

cheers, Jeffery On Friday 20 July 2007 08:25, Ryan Graciano wrote:

PHP passed $data to my write($id) function, and then I wrote it to the database. In the code below, I have retrieved it from the database. I presume that it used encode_session to generate $data. I tried calling unserialize() on it for good measure, but it wasn't able to parse the data. When I return $data from my method, though, PHP is able to turn it into a $_SESSION. Thanks, - Ryan ----- Original Message ---- From: Tijnema <tijnema@gmail.com> To: Ryan Graciano <rmgraci@yahoo.com> Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 5:28:32 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] session_decode from session handler On 7/19/07, Ryan Graciano <rmgraci@yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm having an issue getting session_decode to work from my session handler in PHP 5.2.3. Here's a short code snippet that demonstrates what I'm trying to do (from my read handler) - public function read($id) { .... var_dump($data); // prints out the serialized session correctly $retval = session_decode($data); var_dump($_SESSION); // prints out "array(0) {}" echo $retval; // prints false return $data; } In my calling function, $_SESSION is updated with everything that was held in $data, which means that $data was not corrupt - it worked when I returned it, but it did not work when I used session_decode. This is a problem because I want to change my read($id) function so that it decodes $data, adds something extra to the $_SESSION, then re-encodes $data and returns it. Thanks, - Ryan

How did you get $data? If it's just serialized data, you can simply call unserialize instead of session_decode. Tijnema

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