RE: [PHP] SESSION problem

Been on holiday, so coming to this party a bit late, but.... On Sat 16/08/2008 15:06 Stut wrote: > On 16 Aug 2008, at 14:46, tedd wrote: > > At 2:11 PM +0100 8/16/08, Stut wrote: > >> Ahh, I see the problem. You've never been able to use numbers as > >> keys at the root level of the $_SESSION array. It's not a bug, it's > >> just the way it is. I've just checked the documentation and can't > >> find an obvious reference to this limitation which is kinda annoying. Well at http://www.php.net/manual/en/session.examples.php there's a big fat Note at the top of the page which includes the following: "The keys in the $_SESSION associative array are subject to the same limitations as regular variable names in PHP, i.e. they cannot start with a number and must start with a letter or underscore.". [ -- SNIP -- ] > > Let me play the age-card -- in every language I've programmed in for > > the last 43 years an array can have numeric indexes -- except php's > > SESSION. > > I wish I understood the reason why it's like this but I've never > looked into the session extension in that level of detail, but I doubt > such a limitation would exist if there was not a very good reason for > it. One word suffices here: register_globals! Or, if that doesn't suffice: if register_globals is turned on, all the $_SESSION entries are automatically registered as global variables -- so any numeric indexes will obviously be invalid and will "disappear". For consistency's sake, PHP enforces the restriction even with register_globals off. Cheers! Mike -- Mike Ford, Electronic Information Developer, Libraries & Learning Innovation, C507, Civic Quarter Campus, Leeds Metropolitan University, Woodhouse Lane, LEEDS, LS1 3HE, United Kingdom Email: m.ford@leedsmet.ac.uk Tel: +44 113 812 4730 To view the terms under which this email is distributed, please go to http://disclaimer.leedsmet.ac.uk/email.htm