[thelist] [PHP Newbie] Accessing Object attributes from a _SESSION variable

[Tanner]

> Thanks, John, that did the trick. I also found another method of
> accomplishing that same serialization when dealing with objects in sessions:
> 
> register_session("person"); 
...
> Do any of you know if there's any sort of advantage / disadvantage to
> accessing the session variables this way, as opposed to...
> 
> $_SESSION["person"] = serialize($person); //when writing
> 
> and
> 
> $person = unserialize($_SESSION["person"]); //when reading
> 
> ..?
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing your comments on this. Thanks!
> 
> -jacques :)
> -- 

The disadvantage is that session_register relies on register globals,
and is thus deprecated.  The recommended way is the second way dealing
with the super global array $_SESSION.  If you plan on using objects a
lot in sessions writing a helper class seems as if it would make things
a lot easier but maybe thats just me.

Tanner Burson