Re: PHP 5 Beta 3

At 11:03 AM 11/13/2003 +0000, Wez Furlong wrote:

    2. session support for internal classes. should we have a

Serializable

interface which classes inherit, or have sleep and wakeup

        handlers in the zend_object_handlers structure ?

I guess it's possible. In most cases I think internal classes won't be serialized though, such as COM. I don't think it needs fixing though. It's something which can be added whenever... Actually, people have already tried to serialize PHP5 COM objects and hit a segfault :-) It should be reasonably simple to serialize COM objects (there are a bunch of IPersistXXX interfaces we could use); the limitation right now is that our internals don't provide a sane way to implement it. I can probably whip up a serialization interface over the weekend; it would work a bit like the iterators stuff - driven by a C interface that could wrap a userspace implementation if desired (although I'd be more interested in the internals here).

Sounds fine to me. Andi