Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49622&edit=1
ID: 49622
Comment by: lealcy at gmail dot com
Reported by: giunta dot gaetano at gmail dot com
Summary: allow usage of json and/or php standard serialize
format for sessions
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: Session related
Operating System: *
PHP Version: 5.3.0
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Just add a second parameter to the existing function: $overwrite_session
= true.
This avoid create a extra function and doesn't break any existing code.
Previous Comments:
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[2009-09-22 12:14:10] giunta dot gaetano at gmail dot com
Description:
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The current session_decode() function is good when the user needs to
decode a serialized session string, but it
- needs to have session_start() called beforehand
- has an impact on the current session state
A lot of comments in the php man pages for unserialize() and
session_decode() are from users trying to write a preg_ based decoder of
session data (and failing).
A new function that session_decode_to_array() that
- returned the deserialized data as an array
- did not impact current session state
would imho be quite useful (or adding a flag param to the existing
function, to the same effect)
Since this feat. request has already been filed and closed as bogus
(http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=42725), what I am proposing here is
slightly different: besides 'wddx' and 'php', allow usage of 'json' and
'serialize' as native serialization formats for session data - the
latter corresponding to the native serialize function.
If there is some information loss involved in using those two formats
(ie. references), just make it clear in the docs.
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