Posted by Harris Kosmidis on 09/10/05 11:26

Ken Robinson wrote:
> Harris Kosmidis wrote:
>
>>Hello, I use php4.4.1 and when a user log in I use a class which stores
>>some info for the user. I serialize the class in a session variable.
>>I later on read the session var and unserializd to check for certain
>>user info.
>
>
> Since all information that is stored in session variables is
> automatically serialized, you don't have to serialize it yourself.
>
> Try just storing the class without doing the serialize and retrieve it
> without doing the unserialize and see what happens.
>
> Ken
>

I don't quite undrstand. What I want is to use the same class (with the
same vars filled in upon login) in many pages. That's why I use session
vars and serialize.
Is there a limit on how many bytes a SESSION var can store? (though my
data are less than 5Kb). And why doesn't this fail in php4.2?

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