automatic Array to object conversion

[Grandioso]

Hi all.

 

I just moved my app (eshop) to another server and the shopping cart stopped working.

 

I create it as an array when the first item is added. It's a 2D array, for each index in the first dimension (different products) there are 4 indexes in the second (product ID, price, etc). On my localhost as on the old server I just used $_SESSION['cart'][$i]['ID'] and there was no problem at all. But on this new server, this array converts into an object. If it wasn't a 2D array, I could use the '->' operator instead of '[]', but here it doesn't always work.

I know it, because I checked it with var_dump. On localhost I get array(1) { [0]=>  object(stdClass)#1 (4) { ["ID"]=>  string(1) "5" ["amount"]=>  int(1) ["name"]=>  string(25) "Razer ProTone m100, white" ["price"]=>  string(5) "19.99" } } , while my new server outputs object(Cart)#4 (0) { } }with the same code ofc).

 

It would be awesome if I knew a way to turn this stupid 'feature' off (note that I don't have direct access to php.ini)

 

Any ideas ?

[Grandioso]

BUMP.

 

Halp meh.

[salathe]

What changed between the old and new servers?

[Grandioso]

I don't know. Didn't check the php_info's output, because there are so many things It would take me days to compare 

 

That's why I'm trying to find out which setting could be responsible for this.

[trq]

because there are so many things It would take me days to compare

 

Days?

 

Off the top of my head there isn't a setting that would create such an effect. Can we see some code?

[Grandioso]

OK, not days, but certainly longer than I could take

 

Here's how the cart variable is initialized.

 

	public function addItem($id, $amt, $nm, $prc) {
	if (!isset($_SESSION['cart']))
		$_SESSION['cart'] = array();

	if (!$this->inCart($id)) {
		$i = count($_SESSION['cart']);
		$_SESSION['cart']->$i->ID = $id;
		$_SESSION['cart']->$i->amount = $amt;
		$_SESSION['cart']->$i->name = $nm;
		$_SESSION['cart']->$i->price = $prc;
	}
}

 

(at first it was assigned through "[]", I changed it because it was throwing errors)

 

When I try to get the values, I either get errors (trough "[]") or  NULL (trough "->").

 

 

[trq]

The reason it is being converted to an object is because you are referencing it using ->.

[Grandioso]

I wish it was. But it's not.

 

At first I was accessing it trough "[]", but then it threw me errors complaining that I can not access object variables trough []. I only changed it later.

 

And what's most important : the same code on a different server runs just fine. So it must somewhere in the server settings.

 

I just put it back the way it was (with []). It works on localhost but doesn't work on my new server.

btw the old server runs an older version of PHP, and my local server runs a newer one as the new server.

[JonnoTheDev]

Type cast the object as an array

$x = new object();
$x->name = "Neil";
$x->age = 29;

$y = (array)$x;
print_r($y);

[Grandioso]

Still does'nt work

 

The array is empty after conversion.

[Grandioso]

I can hardly believe it, but it's SOLVED !

 

I created an .htaccess file in the root of the application and put this line in it :

php_value register_globals off 

 

Now it's working like a charm.  So happy