Accessing $user->session
akreider - February 4, 2005 - 00:45
How do I access the variables that are stored in $user->session? They got converted (serialized) into something that when I do print_r looks like
[session] => client_type|s:6:"WinIE6";sClient_type|s:6:"WinIE6";iIframe|i:1;
(And so on... I have a complex array in there.)
When I run unserialize($var) on it - it returns an empty string.
Help Still Needed - Serializing and Sessions
It looks like Drupal has a different serializing format than PHP does.
When I serialize some data with PHP it looks like:
s:11:"client_type";s:6:"WinIE6";s:12:"sClient_type";s:6:"WinIE6";s:7:"iIframe";i:1;
Drupal stores things in the sessions table like:
client_type|s:6:"WinIE6";sClient_type|s:6:"WinIE6";iIframe|i:1;
So when I run unserialize on $user->session - it fails.
What am I doing wrong?
Note I'm running php 4.3.4
Note I'm running php 4.3.4 and Drupal 4.5.
Should I upgrade the php?
Still Need Help
To make this even simpler, say I add $_SESSION['test']='test'; It stores it in the database as test|s:4:"test";
But then unserialize doesn't work on $user->session.
What is wrong?
OK so I haven't figured out
OK so I haven't figured out how to access session variables in $user->session. With help, I figured out how to access them in $_SESSION.
The trick for iframes is to follow advice I got from Neil Drumm:
Make the iframe contents be served by Drupal by writing a small module.
http://drupaldocs.org/api/4.5/file/contributions/docs/developer/examples...
Replace
print theme('page', $content);
with
print $content;
and then you don't have the header and sidebars.
Also to stay out of trouble, you might want to convert your objects into arrays before sticking them in $_SESSION. Otherwise you might run into trouble with having to define your classes before calling session_start(). Just something that happenned to me.