Posted by Mathieu Dumoulin on 05/05/05 18:59

Stuart Nielson wrote:
> Sorry to everyone about the stupid READ notification on the posting. I
> completely forgot that it was enabled. This one shouldn't have that
> problem.
>
>
> I am using PHP version 4.3.4.
>
> I'm creating an authorization module that uses a users object, that
> includes the username, usertype, etc. I want to store this in a session
> variable (i.e. $_SESSION['objects']['auth'] = new Authorization();) so
> that I can keep the information from page to page. However, I get an
> error that it is an incomplete class everytime I try to access a
> function from the object like this:
> "$_SESSION['objects']['auth']->Login();". It works fine when it's not
> stored in the array. Is this a PHP 4 issue? Or is there something I'm
> doing wrong?
>
> Any pointers would be helpful. If this doesn't work, I'll have to
> rework
> things to just store in arrays.
>
> Stuart
>
Objects can't be stored in sessions, what you could do is register a
shutdown function using register_shutdown_function(<functionname>) and
create a custom function that would use serialize() to serialize your
object.

When the system starts a new you could unserialize() this session
variable back into an array.

Mathieu

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