Question

I have a multi page form that I am trying to implement on my website which works like so:

1 Enter details of customer — $_POST –> 2 Confirm Customer Details –$_SESSION–> 3 Generate PDF from Customer Details

As you can see on my second page I get the values in my form from $_POST. On that same page I create an object called “customer” from my class called customer which stores all the values POSTed from my first page.

I then set a $_SESSION variable called “customer” and assign it to my object.

session_start();  

        //includes html header part of page
        include("includes/page/header.php");



        //customer class 
        include("classes.php");


        $customer = new customer();


        $_SESSION['customer'] = $customer;

Now on my final page of my site I have the following code:

    session_start();

//assign customer to equal object stored in session
$customer = $_SESSION['customer'];


//to test if successfull , nothing is displayed!
echo $customer->first_name;


return 0;

Testing this nothing is displayed on my page, so my session is not doing what I thought it would do.

FYI:

• My class customer is fine and works properly and stores all values correctly!
• My post array is working fine

var_dump of session on final page.

object(__PHP_Incomplete_Class)#1 (15) { ["__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name"]=> string(8) "customer" ["first_name"]=> string(5) "Iain" ["second_name"]=> string(6) "Taylor" ["company_name"]=> string(10) "Wired Ltd." ["address_1"]=> string(15) "14 Joseph St" ["address_2"]=> string(8) "West End" ["city"]=> string(7) "Glasgow" ["postcode"]=> string(7) "G45 NP4" ["county"]=> string(29) "Scotland" ["country"]=> string(14) "United Kingdom" ["email"]=> string(31) "[e-mail]" ["phone"]=> NULL ["cid"]=> NULL ["reg_date"]=> NULL ["tel"]=> string(11) "01413395678" } 

Any ideas how to get this to work ?

Thanks

Merry Christmas!

Answer 1

You need to do include("classes.php"); on your final page, before session_start(), because, when deserializing session variables, PHP tries to instantiate object of the same class that you`ve put in session data. So, if PHP cannot find the class, it raises an error.