Re: [PHP4BETA] class serialize/unserialize implementation.

Samuel Liddicott wrote: > So I'm obviously missing something here. If the benefit of serializing the > classname with the object is not to help unserialize it, is there some way > of getting this name out of the serialized class easily in order to pass it > to unserialize? and if so why can't unserialize just do that? > > Or something? Or is there some other reason for serializing the classname? -- End of excerpt from Samuel Liddicott Classname by itself is not a description of the object. What Thies was saying is that you have to have your class defined somewhere before you call unserialize so that the function can internally create an instance of the class based on the name it got from the serialized string. -Andrey * I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path. *