Storing objects in a session PHP 5.2.0

[Anthony Smith]

I have read the message boards in this group and others. I still have
not been able to pull my obect out of a session and use it. Here is how
I store it in a session:

<?
//Include the UserClass & RoleClass so that we can create a user
object.
require_once("UserClass.php");
require_once("RoleClass.php");

//This has to be the first line of code a file if sessions are used.
session_start();

//Create a new user object
$user = new User();
$user->setName($_SERVER['HTTP_OBLIX_GIVENNAME']);

$role = new Role();
$role->setSysName($xml->roles[$i]->systemName);
//Now add the role to the user object.
$user->addRole($role);

//Save the user object in the session
$_SESSION['user'] = $user;
?>

This is how I try to pull the object out:

<?
require_once("UserClass.php");
require_once("RoleClass.php");

session_start();

//Include the UserClass & RoleClass so that we can create a user
object.
//See if there is a user object in the session
if ( isset($_SESSION['user']) ){

//Get user object from session
$user = (User)$_SESSION['user'];
}

I have also just tried:
$user = $_SESSION['user'];

?>

I receive errors like these:
<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
<b>/home/as411161/apache/htdocs/common/vcp_menu2.php</bon line
<b>14</b><br />

[Carl]

Anthony Smith wrote:

I receive errors like these:
<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
<b>/home/as411161/apache/htdocs/common/vcp_menu2.php</bon line
<b>14</b><br />

Anthony,

This is a parse error and most likely not related to objects or
sessions. My first guess would be a missing semicolon. Check the end of
line 13 in your vcp_menu2.php source.

Hope that helps,
Carl.

[Anthony Smith]

The problem was with sing simple_xml I saw a few posts like this but I
thought it did not apply to what I was doing. Well it did. I just
needed to cast the xml attribute to a string:

$role->setSysName((string)$xml->roles[$i]->systemName);

Code Snippet:

//Turn the xml into an object. Easier to parse this way. Maybe a XSD is
an option?
$xml = simplexml_load_string($xml,'SimpleXMLElement',LIBX ML_NOCDATA);

//First look at the message to see if any roles exist for the user. We
can look at the
//roleStatus message which will have a vale or true or false.
if ($xml->message->roleStatus == "true"){

//Loop through all of the user's roles
for($i = 0; $i != count($xml->roles); $i++){

//Create a role object for each role.
$role = new Role();
//Typecast any data from simplexml functions. Otherwise
//errors will appear such as: "Node no longer exists in
$role->setSysName((string)$xml->roles[$i]->systemName);
Carl wrote:

Anthony Smith wrote:

I receive errors like these:
<b>Parse error</b>: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in
<b>/home/as411161/apache/htdocs/common/vcp_menu2.php</bon line
<b>14</b><br />

Anthony,

This is a parse error and most likely not related to objects or
sessions. My first guess would be a missing semicolon. Check the end of
line 13 in your vcp_menu2.php source.

Hope that helps,
Carl.