On Friday 13 October 2006 20:18, Tony Di Croce wrote:
> Is their a slick way of automatically serializing Objects to the session
> when a script exit()'s and de-serialize them in session_start()?
>
> It seems to me that object oriented PHP might actually be useful if I could
> persist an object across an entire session, and come to think of it, their
> really ought to be an automatic way to do this... (IE, I'd not be suprised
> one bit if its already a feature of PHP that I'm just not aware of)...
>
> So, is their a way to do this?
class Foo {
...
}
session_start();
$foo = new Foo();
$_SESSION['myfoo'] = $foo;
Ta da. The catch is the class must be defined before you start the session,
so that it knows how to deserialize it.
Of course, the cost of serialization and deserialization is non-trivial for
any data structure that is of interesting size, and you have to keep in mind
that if you aren't syncing to the database periodically then you will end up
with stale data objects. (An issue in any case, but the longer the object
representing a view of your database exists, the more of a problem it
becomes. YMMV depending on the data you're holding.)
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