note 29004 added to language.oop.magic-functions

The documentation above says this function is 'supposed' to return an array with the names of variables to be saved. What this in reality means is that if you dont, bad things will happen. I had forgotten to return the requested array after using __sleep to shutdown LDAP connections in an object, and was attempting to save the object as part of a session. Since __sleep was not returning anything, the serialisation was evidently not returning anything either. This broke the stored session data, as one of the fields was completely missing and the unserialize parsing then failed. Only by hacking through the serialised session data by hand was I able to track down the error, and my silly mistake. Perhaps PHP should have some way of dealing with this eventuality (treat it like an empty array?) so that it doesnt break sessions...? Anyway, hopefully this might save a few people the hours of headache I just went through. Make sure you return something from this function! -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop.magic-functions.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+29004 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+29004 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+29004