Looping through session data

[ensnare]

Hi all,

I'm using a database session handler and am looking to loop through
data residing in the sessions table to make a 'Users online' array.

I've found that using urldecode on the data column gives me a
serialized string of varname|datatype:data; for each variable. I'm
having a bit of trouble with deserializing the data.

I could always use regexps to grab the specific data I want, but I'm
sure there's a better way to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks much!

[steve]

ensnare wrote:

Hi all,

I’m using a database session handler and am looking to loop through
data residing in the sessions table to make a ’Users online’ array.

I’ve found that using urldecode on the data column gives me a
serialized string of varname|datatype:data; for each variable. I’m
having a bit of trouble with deserializing the data.

I could always use regexps to grab the specific data I want, but I’m sure there’s a better way to do this. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks much!

PHP has a nice way of looping thru variables inside an array so with
query string you can do something like this:

foreach ($GET as $key => $value) {
//not do something with $value[$key]...
}

same for cookies, $_PUT, $_SERVER, etc.

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[Jochen Daum]

Hi ensnare,

On 28 Jun 2004 18:11:04 -0700, en*****@gmail.com (ensnare) wrote:

Hi all,

I'm using a database session handler and am looking to loop through
data residing in the sessions table to make a 'Users online' array.

I've found that using urldecode on the data column gives me a
serialized string of varname|datatype:data; for each variable. I'm
having a bit of trouble with deserializing the data.

Have you tried unserialize()?

HTh, Jochen
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