Question

I have an object, and I am using php’s session to persist the objects state. Here is basically what I’m doing:

I have “object A” which contains one “object B”. In the constructor for A, I am simply grabbing B from the session and setting “object B” equal to its appropriate value in the session.

I then proceed to call some of object b’s functions, but I have a feeling this may be wrong.

Do objects stored and retrieved from a php session retain their capabilities, or do they become data storage objects with no capabilities?

Cheers

Answer 1

Objects will be serialized before being placed in the session, thus they will be “fully fledged” when they are retrieved form the session due to de-serialization. Note that the object’s class needs to be available at the time of deserialization.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.serialization.php