Storing objects in PHP session

Question

The PHP documentation says \"You can\'t use references in session variables as there is no feasible way to restore a reference to another variable.\"

Does this mean

Answer 1

For safe serialization and unserialization encode and decode with base64_encode() and base64_decode() respectively. Below I pass a serialized Object to a session and unserialize it on the other page to regain the variable to an object state.

Page 1

setUserRegData();
$reg_serlizer = base64_encode(serialize($registrationData));   //serilize the object to create a string representation
$_SESSION['regSession'] = $reg_serlizer;
?>

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firstName;
?>

This article describes issues that may be faced by not doing so. issuses with php serialization/unserialization