maintaining object state

[ksmatthews]

Hi There,

 

I would like to load a page the first time to create an object of a class.

When I reload that page I would like to change properties of that same object WITHOUT re-creating it.

 

How is this possible ?

 

Steven M

[premiso]

You can do it with session, but you still have to "re-create" it in a sense.

 

I cannot remember excatly how it is done, but I think it is something similiar to this:

 

<?php
session_start();
include('classdefinition.php'); // this is required.

if (!isset($_SESSION['object'])) {
    $object = new class();
}else {
    $object = unserialize($_SESSION['object']);
} 



// this needs to be at the end of the processing.
$_SESSION['object'] = serialize($object);
?>

 

I am not 100% sure if that is the correct code. I think I am missing something, but that is the basic gist of it. If I do some research and find out if that is right I will let you know.

 

EDIT:

Alright I remembered what I was missing, the serialize and unserialize functions. The above should work now.