RE: [PHP] SESSION problem

At 12:55 AM +0100 8/20/08, Ford, Mike wrote:

Content-Type: text/plain Content-length: 1998 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.".

Yeah, but that's no fair -- you read the documentation. :-) Seriously, however, the thing that bothered me wasn't the limitations in keys, that's understandable, but rather if you do use a numeric index, then all the legal session variables declared after that incident no longer work. Imagine having ten session variables working and then adding another with a numeric index between sessions five and six declarations. I can see the session with the numeric index not working, but why would sessions six through ten stop? Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com