Storing A PHP Object In A Session Variable

Question

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

Answer 1

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 '
';
var_dump($_SESSION);
echo '
';