RE: [PHP4BETA] Possible problem with sessions and objects...

So can someone confirm that you can/can't register objects within a session and have them work properly? Is this a bug or am I being ignored? :) - seth -----Original Message----- From: pour@mieterra.com [mailto:pour@mieterra.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 1:55 PM To: Seth Banks Subject: Re: [PHP4BETA] Possible problem with sessions and objects... Hi, Unless this has changed recently, you cannot session-register objects, only arrays and scalars. Ciao, Andreas Seth Banks wrote: > > All, > > Well it seems that I have found my first PHP 4 bug! While messing around > with PHP classes and sessions I think that I have stumbled upon a rather > large problem. If this is an error in my code, lemme know, but I have tried > this various ways, and still can't get it to work. Are there known problems > with storing objects in sessions? > > The problem is after I register the object in the session, start the session > on the next page, and try to access a property, it is wrong...I try and > access $auth->user on the second page, but get the value of the variable > $userid, which is a form field on the first page. > > Am I completely out of my mind here, or is this a valid bug? Sorry if the > message is a bit incoherent, but it's late and I'm tired! :) > > Here's a basic rundown of the code: > > (from my first file (logon.php) i run this...) > require("class/auth.php"); > $auth = new Auth(); > $auth->user = "test"; > > (auth boiled down looks like this...) > class Auth { > var $user = ""; > var $md5pass = ""; > var $sharedValue = ""; > var $auth = false; > > function Auth() { > session_start(); > $this->sharedValue = md5(uniqid(rand())); > $auth = $this; > session_register("auth"); > } > } > > (page which logon.php submits to...) > require("class/auth.php"); > session_start(); > > $results = $auth->validate($userid, $password); > > -- > PHP 4.0 Beta Mailing List <http://www.php.net/version4/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php4beta-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php4beta-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php4beta-admin@lists.php.net