renaming superglobals or using pointers or aliases

[activeserver]

Hi all,

I'm writing a big app (big for me - 300-500 lines per page - 50+ pages ) and I've decided to use $_SESSION to sore intermediate data.

The part for which I'm using $_SESSION is not high-volume - registration and form filling - which will be done *once* by any user, so using $_SESSION may be OK for now

High traffic pages will have no memory usage - lest I exceed memory on shared hosting and crash other people's apps

I'm completely fed up completely of typing long names like $_SESSION['RegSection']['Email'], $_SESSION['RegSection']['FirstName'] etc.

So, I want to ask:

• Is there a way of using aliases to refer to $_SESSION simply as '$s'?
  
• or this: $s =& $_SESSION['RegSection']; followed by $s['Email'] = $something_else; etc etc
  
• import_request_variables() is only for GPC - http://php.net/manual/en/function.import-request-variables.php and extract() is not useful either
  

Any help is greatly appreciated

TIA

[discomatt]

Why not just test it out?

 

<?php

session_start();

$_SESSION['test']++;

$s = &$_SESSION;

print_r($s);


?>

 

And refresh the page a bunch of times