From: | Lynna Landstreet <lynna(at)gallery44(dot)org> |
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To: | <pgsql-php(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Sessions and serializing (was: Checking data inserted |
Date: | 2004-05-19 21:15:19 |
Message-ID: | BCD146A7.12C2%lynna@gallery44.org |
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Hmmm, so my entire idea for how to do this appears to have been unsound.
Well, better to find that out sooner than later! Thanks to everyone who
replied.
But I have a few questions:
on 5/12/04 7:36 PM, Chris at chris(at)interspire(dot)com wrote:
> You could serialize up the data in sessions and then use that data
> before adding it to the database.
> See http://www.php.net/serialize and http://www.php.net/unserialize and
> http://www.php.net/session
OK, so if I understand this correctly, the serialize function can take
something like a big associative array containing all the data I want to be
able to write into the database and condense it into a single object that
can be passed via a hidden form field or something to that effect, correct?
Or the data can be put into the session array using $_SESSION, and then
passed by using a $session_id in the page URL?
But according to one of the user comments in the manual I have to use
addslashes() and stripslashes() if I want to be able to put the data into
the database after unserializing it - is that right?
Also, what about character encoding? My database and my web pages are utf-8
because of the presence of special characters in some of the artists and
names and image and exhibition titles (it's a Canadian gallery, so there are
a lot of French artists). Will serializing the array containing the data
affect that in any way?
Sorry if I'm being a pest - the whole session thing is new to me and I want
to make sure I understand it correctly.
Thanks,
Lynna
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Resource Centre Database Coordinator
Gallery 44
www.gallery44.org
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