Jochem, On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 09:11 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: > Michael Moyle schreef: > > Hi, > > > > I am new to the list and have a question that inspired me to join the > > list as I can not find any answer online. > > > > When a object reference is passed to the $_SESSION array what happens to > > let's assume php5. all objects are reference like, they behave from a user POV > as objects would in php4 if you passed them by reference explicitly. > > that said they're not really references - there is a Sara Golemon article which > explains it ... not that I truely understand the inner machinations of the engine. > Thanks. I believe the article is : http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/51-Youre-being-lied-to..html > > the object? Is the object serialized and saved in session (in this case > > file)? Or just the reference with the object in memory remaining on the > > heap? > > php is 'share nothing' architecture ... everything disappears at the end of a > request - nothing remains in memory. > > an object stored in $_SESSION will be automatically serialized and saved where ever > the session data is saved (usually to disk). That's right. That makes perfect sense. > > the only thing to remember is that you must have the class of the object stored in > $_SESSION loaded *before* you restart the session otherwise php will generate an > object of class stdClass. Indeed. That has happened to me before. -- best regards, Michael -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
