Re: [PHP4BETA] Intended use of session and HTTP_*_VARS.

On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, you wrote: > On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Shane Burrell wrote: > > While looking at both the session documentation on the site and digging through > > the comments in the NEWS and ChangeLog files I am a little confused about which > > way I should implement session. Registering vars from the global scope seems > > to work fine. However it would seem that any attempt to write data directly to > > http_state_vars will not work. I reviewed older postings refering to some if > > not all of the http_*_vars being read only now. I attempted changing > > track_vars and reg global options in the ini file in order to do away with the > > global vars method at get to a track vars only method. It would seem that > > keeping the global scope free of any session vars you would have to be able to > > access the http_state_vars. (read/write/destroy) Is there something I missed? > > Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks. > > Shane, > > I just fixed it in CVS. If register_globals is not set, and track_vars > is, then the variables will be serialized from $HTTP_STATE_VARS[]. > > -Andrei > > It is commonly the case with technologies that you can get > the best insight about how they work by watching them fail. > -- Neal Stephenson > That works great. I have one other question. When global and track vars are both on the HTTP_STATE_VARS will not update the global counterpart. Its not a big deal but if it did update the global var it would make easy migration to the track_vars method only. Thanks again. :)