I need to set a cookie with an array as a value. Is the best way to run serialize() on the data?
LastMitch
I need to set a cookie with an array as a value. Is the best way to run serialize() on the data?
Yes. It's the best way to used serialize() function on the data.
It should look something like this:
setCookie('admin', serialize(array(id => 'Feb2002', email => 'dani@dani.com')), time()+3600, COOKIEPATH);
or this example to see the differnece between serialized() & unserialize():
<html>
<body>
<pre>
<?php
$array = array(
'id' => Feb 2002,
'email' => 'dani@dani.com',
'token' => base64_encode('LawnGuyland21593')
);
echo "Dump(initial):\r\n";
var_dump($array);
$serialized = serialize($array);
echo "Serialized:\r\n".$serialized."\r\n";
$unserialized = unserialize($serialized);
echo "Unserialized:\r\n".$unserailized."\r\n";
var_dump($unserialized);
?>
</pre>
</body>
</html>
or you can also used this:
http://snipplr.com/view/43435/
From that example from the link you need used json-decode function.
I'm not sure any of the examples I posted will work on codeigniter framework because codeigniter has it's own setcookies().
veedeoo
474
Hi,
Yes, that would be a good choice. The latest Symfony and Zend frameworks put everything into an array.. I don't have any symfony or Zend in front of me at the moment, but as far as I can remember while working with these two frameworks, both have sessions and cookies as an array.. it was something like this
## in symfony they have something like this
public static function getSession($session_x = array(), $cookie_x = array(), $user_credentials=array()){
## something here
}
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