Re: [phplib-dev] Re: [phplib] PHPlib session using PHP4 sessions implementation: the code From: Max Derkachev (kot <email protected>)
Date: 12/04/00

Hi Teodor!

Teodor Cimpoesu wrote:

> > should make a basic Session class, and then make extensions to it, covering
> > standard php4 storage modules and the user module, which uses custom
> > containers.
> I love this approach, yap. Design custom classes, from simple session
> management, with a backward compatible API (as the one in the repository right
> now), and then extend that class to enhance the functionalities.
>

The problem with it is that the handlers for session_set_save_handler()
ought to be simple functions, not class methods. the function takes only
string arguments, so we have to use wrappers for class methods outside
the class, and session_set_save_handler() should refer to those
wrappers. And, because of this, the task could not be done only by
constructing Session_* inheritance chain.
We need a php function similar to xml_set_object(), say, named
session_set_object( string name_of_sess_object), that could bind session
engine to an object, and, hence, arguments for
session_set_save_handler() would be interpreted as that object's class
methods, similarly to the xml php module.
Maybe Sascha Schumann (I hope he is reading this thread) would help with
this? I'm not a C professional (pitiful).
Till now, the only way to go is to include different files with
corresponding Session stuff for both of the storage modules (standard
ones or user).

> The start as I see it is settling on a session class API( a Session Interface,
> to say so).
>
It has existed before and well documented in the PHPLib docs :). Do we
have to redesign the whole class? It could break the compatibility with
apps that was built using PHPLib and PHP3. 

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