ID: 27555
Comment by: dcaironi at yahoo dot com
Reported By: jaanus at heeringson dot com
Status: Open
Bug Type: Documentation problem
Operating System: Linux 2.4.24
PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-03-10 (dev)
New Comment:
I agree with fschaper.
The ability to modify the $_SESSION variable in the destructor could be
very useful, for example to have your class automatically serialized in
session; this, with a factory pattern (getInstance method, that
unserialized the class if exists in session), allow to have a "session
object", sort of.
for example
Class Test{
function __destruct(){
$_SESSION['test'] = serialize($this);
}
static function getInstance(){
$instance = unserialize($_SESSION['test']);
if(!isset($instance) || !is_a$instance,"test")){
$instance = new Test();
}
return $instance;
}
}
Actually, this was possible with php 4.x using
register_shutdown_function, that (in fact) allows to simulate the
destructor behaviour...
Previous Comments:
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[2004-06-01 17:22:22] fschaper at intux dot org
Why not to call the destructors before the modules are shut down? I
wrote a short patch for this and it works out fine (That does not mean
however that it does not break something ,) ).
http://www.intux.org/download/patches/patch_php_cvs_01_06_04.rar
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[2004-03-11 04:34:16] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's still not documented, leave it as an open doc bug.
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[2004-03-11 04:28:32] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report
a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php
The destructor is executed too late in the shutdown sequence. If you
want a destructor to modify some $_SESSION
then you need to manually refcount and free all references using
unset() before the script terminates.
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[2004-03-11 03:16:29] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Destructors are run (when not unset-ing yourself) after the session
module finalizes the session so everything done in constructors has no
effect. I agree it's not optimal behavior, but I don't think we need to
classify it as a bug. It is not documented though so I'm making this a
documentation problem.
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[2004-03-11 02:35:15] jaanus at heeringson dot com
Yes, but that is not the issue here, is it? What this bug is about is
the unability to add session variables from __destruct(). Obviously you
have to reload the page to se the effect on the real session. The
[destructor] => Yes will NEVER appear in $_SESSION.
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