What I have done is declared one User class in a separate file and created its object there only. After this included this file in all other file which are using its object. So the object is creating only once and included in every other file only once. Now when I over write its variable it value get lost when I send the user in other file. The confusion is if I have created only one object of a class and used the same object through out the site how its value can get lost and I think this is a separate issue than setting $_SESSION variables. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM Subject: Re: Re: Class variable value lost To: Shawn McKenzie <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sumit Sharma <sumitphp5@xxxxxxxxx>, PHP General Mailing List < php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 10:36 -0500, Shawn McKenzie wrote: > Sumit Sharma wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have developed a listing site which is totally class based. Now when it > > authenticates a user login and set appropriate class variables to true and > > set user info in user class variables, value of all the set variables are > > lost when I forward the user to members page. When I check the the value on > > other page it is set to the default value of the class. Please help. > > > > > > Regard, > > Sumit > > > > You needs to pass the object to the next page. Look into sessions. > > -- > Thanks! > -Shawn > http://www.spidean.com > The object only exists for that instance of the script, so when the user navigates to the next page, the object is freed up from the memory. There are a couple of ways you could get round this: * don't navigate away from the page, and use AJAX calls to update parts of the page for the user (bad imho, as it relies on Javascript) * use sessions like Shawn recommended If you use sessions, you can store the objects themselves as variables into the session. You should be careful with this, as you may not want too many sessions open with large objects in them as, depending on your server setup, sessions could last quite a while, and there may also be a limit on the amount of memory reserved for sessions. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
