I'm new to OOP and am writing one of my first classes. I work for an insurance broker and am trying to use a Class to store things about a quote, and store the Object as a session variable.
Thing is, when I view the session variables, I get:
sessionName __PHP_Incomplete_Class Object ( [__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name] => myClass [brokerId] => Can anyone tell me why it's showing incomplete class name?
Make sure that either the class definition is present before session_start() is called, e.g.
require_once 'class.MyClass.php'; session_start(); or set an unserialize_callback_func that will try to load the class definition as described at http://docs.php.net/function.unserialize.
edit: this can also be done via spl_autoload_register(). E.g.
spl_autoload_register(function($name) { // only a demo ...this might be insecure ;-) require_once 'class.'.$name.'.php'; }); session_start(); echo '<pre>'; var_dump($_SESSION); echo '</pre>'; I managed to fix it all by myself, not sure how though.
I ensured that the page displaying the values was structured like:
require_once("Class.php"); session_start(); $_SESSION['myObject']->printVariables(); And that the page constructing the object was like:
# Include the class require_once($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/Class.php"); # Instantiate a new policy $_SESSION['myObject'] = new quote('54'); $_SESSION['myObject']->printVariables(); I also made sure that the page displaying calling the object did not use any serialize functions, as they seemed to only cause errors.
I am using this
if (!is_object($_SESSION)) $_SESSION = new ArrayObject(); 