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[Chris Shiflett]

--- Phillip Powell <phillip.powell at adnet-sys.com> wrote:
> Ok I'm sorry I have to ask this: Why is it specific to just $_SESSION 
> that it auto-serializes anything you put into it?

It wouldn't be very intuitive otherwise. Imagine doing something like
this:

$foo = array('a', 'b', 'c');
$_SESSION['foo'] = $foo;

It wouldn't make much sense if you were to echo $_SESSION['foo'] on
another page and get:

Array

Maybe I don't understand the question...

Chris

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