Session var = object 1

[Itshim]

I've read this thread from 2003: thread434-685282 which answers most of my questions. I noticed that in sleipnir's example when setting a session variable to an object, the information stored on the server is serialized.

I am still a little fuzzy about serialisation is needed. I see in the example that PHP automatically serializes and unserialises the data. So there is no need for me to program this, correct?

Thank you,
Itshim

 

[sleipnir214]

That is correct. PHP automagically serializes anything put into a session store, so you do not have to write any code to do the serialization.




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[Itshim]

Thank you for the answer sleipnir. Just one last question...

I have created a child class of my session class, which handles storing and retrieving objects in a session. Currently, I have it setup to store all objects in one array. Everything is working as expected, but through testing I've noticed that the '$_SESSION['objects']' grows very quickly and I am little worried about hitting some sort of ceiling to the amount of data that can be stored in one $_SESSION variable. Is there a limit, or are my concerns unjustified?

Itshim

 

[sleipnir214]

I'm sure there must be limits, but I do not know what they are. I've never hit any kind of limit and I've stored an awful lot in session variables before.

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[Itshim]

Thank you once again, sleipnir...

 

[hos2]

an awful lot ?? I'm als obusy with sessionvariables in MYSQL and I was wondering that if I want to make my pages multilanguage if it's the best to store all the vars of the textobjects in the session or use include files for it ????

 

[sleipnir214]

I wouldn't put the text necessary for internationalization into session variables. I would just put the user's preferred language into a session variable, then let the scripts output the correct text based on that preference. How you accomplish this programmatic switch of languages (include files, whathaveyou) is up to you.


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