All,

I *did* search before I posted and couldn't find the answer. If I missed something, I apologize.

I have tried to store / retrieve an custom object in $_SESSION, but on retrieving the object, it does not work properly. Inspecting the object with print_r() shows that it is a "__PHP_Incomplete_Class Object". The class is defined before retrieving the object. Research indicates that to get my code to work properly, the class has to be defined before session_start() is executed in include/common.php, but it is not obvious to me how to do that without modifying either mainfile.php or common.php. Could someone point me to the correct way I should be doing this?

Peter

Objects can be stored in a session. You have to include/require the object's definition before it is accessed from $_SESSION otherwise you get the "__PHP_Incomplete_Class Object" message.

An Example.



This will work because the user class has not been defined yet so PHP does not know how to handle the object in the session.



This will not



Personally, I use serialize when putting objects in sessions as serialise converts the object into a transportable format.



HTH.

McNaz,

I am not quite sure I completely understood your explanation - but I used serialize() and unserialize() successfully to fix the problem.

Many thanks.

Peter

Well, I thought my problem was fixed, but it isn't. My code goes something as follows:
.......
$myobj = '';
if (!empty($_SESSION['mydata']))
{
$serobj = $_SESSION['mydata'];
if(!empty($serobj))
{
$myobj = unserialize($serobj);
}

if (!is_object($myobj))
{
$myobj = '';
unset($_SESSION['mydata']);
}
}
......
......
if (!is_object($myobj))
{
$myobj = new myobjclass($arg);
}
......
if (is_object($myobj))
{
$_SESSION['mydata'] = serialize($myobj);
}
......

The object serializes properly at the bottom of the code. The problem is that the second time I execute the code, I expect $_SESSION['mydata'] to have the serialized object in it at the top of the code block, but it doesn't. What am I doing wrong?

Peter