Re: PHP5, $_SESSION, DOM XML objects not returning value

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Daevid Vincent wrote:
Are you f'ing kidding me?!

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php

"Some types of data can not be serialized thus stored in sessions. It
includes resource variables or objects with circular references (i.e.
objects which passes a reference to itself to another object). "

L A M E !!!

This is absurd. There shouldn't be any reason I can't send a reference to

maybe it's more absurd to try a stick DOM XML objects into the
session in the first place?

another object -- Especially a built in type! UGH.

really why is that?

by all means write a patch that allows the serialization code
to serialize circular references. Though I imagine that it's
a little more difficult than it sounds.

then again you have __sleep() and __wakeup() magic methods which you
maybe able to use to 'shutdown' any references and 'bring them up' again.

btw I believe that the serialization code doesn't care whether objects
are 'built in' or not. it's purely a reference issue.



-----Original Message-----
From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:daevid@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 3:02 PM
To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  PHP5, $_SESSION, DOM XML objects not returning value

I'm trying to store an array of DOM XML objects
(http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php) in a PHP5.0.3 $_SESSION array, but when I load the session back (and yes, I've declared my class before the
session_start()), I get these errors:

Warning: XMLRule::getValue() [function.getValue]: Invalid State Error in /lockdown/includes/classes/rule_xml.class.php on line 74

Or

Warning: XMLRule::getValue() [function.getValue]: Invalid State Error in /lockdown/includes/classes/rule_xml.class.php on line 81

And all the VALUES are empty, however *my* XMLRule class array seems right otherwise. It's like PHP didn't serialize all of it's own DOM XML objects
(which are built in objects!!!)

Here are the pertinent parts of the classes and other code snippets.

##############################################################
##############
#####
class XMLRule { // for example 'is_username' XML tag would set $name = 'Username'
   protected $name = null;

	// The reference pointer to the DOMNode, this is a wealth of
information in itself.
	// look at the DOMNode class @
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php
   protected $DOMNode = null;
	
protected function __construct($DOMNode, $name, $id = null) {
		$this->DOMNode = $DOMNode;
		$this->name = $name;
		$this->id = $id;
   } //__construct()


function getValue() { //check for multiple values, such as a list of names perhaps
[#74]		if ($this->DOMNode->childNodes->length > 1)
		{
foreach ($this->DOMNode->childNodes as $tmpNode) $tmpArray[] = $tmpNode->nodeValue;
			return $tmpArray;
		}
		else
[#81]			return $this->DOMNode->nodeValue;
	}
}

class is_username extends XMLRule
{
	function __construct($DOMNode, $id = null) {
parent::__construct($DOMNode, 'Username', $id); }
}

class is_day extends XMLRule
{
	function __construct($DOMNode, $id = null) {
parent::__construct($DOMNode, 'Day', $id); }
}

...etc...

##############################################################
##############
#####

// IMPORTANT: You *MUST* declare the class *BEFORE* you call
session_start(). // If you run session_start() before the definition of the class, // the session variables of the objects will be corrupted.
// http://www.zend.com/phorum/read.php?num=3&id=36854&thread=36847

require_once('classes/rule_xml.class.php');

if (!isset($_SESSION['ruleArray']))
{
	$XMLDOC = new DOMDocument();
	$XMLDOC->loadXML($xmlstring);
	
	$ruleArray = array();
	$i = 1;
	$or = 1;
	foreach($XMLDOC->firstChild->childNodes as $myNode)
	{
		if ($myNode->nodeName == 'and_conditions')
		{
			foreach($myNode->childNodes as $cNode)
			{
				$key = (string)($cNode->nodeName);
				//make a new instance of the node name'd
class
$ruleArray[$or][$i] = new $key($cNode, $i); $i++;
			}
			
			$or++; //begin new OR block
		} //if and_conditions
	} //foreach $myNode
	
	$_SESSION['ruleArray'] = serialize($ruleArray);
}
else $ruleArray = unserialize($_SESSION['ruleArray']);

I've tried this with the un/serialize and without. PHP5 is supposed to
handle that for me, but just in case, I tried it anyways.

If I don't use the $SESSION, then things work fine and I have my values.

I also tried to do this:

	$_SESSION['ruleArray'] = $ruleArray;
	$ruleArray = $_SESSION['ruleArray'];

And surprisingly that works (although it doesn't solve my problem).

##############################################################
##############
#####
Upon loading this back, this is what the array looks like in either case
(working or not)

Array
(
   [1] => Array
       (
           [1] => is_username Object
               (
                   [name:protected] => Username
                   [DOMNode:protected] => DOMElement Object
                       (
                       )
                   [id:protected] => 1
               )

           [2] => is_day Object
               (
                   [name:protected] => Day
                   [DOMNode:protected] => DOMElement Object
                       (
                       )
                   [id:protected] => 2
               )

	...etc...

##############################################################
##############
#####

PHP Version 5.0.3

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