ID: 51173 Updated by: johan...@php.net Reported By: s...@php.net -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Scripting Engine problem Operating System: Win7 PHP Version: 5.3.2RC3 New Comment:
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php Fixing this creates more issues, like performance drop, than it solves. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2010-02-28 11:12:23] s...@php.net Description: ------------ If you serialize an object in the session and then change the properties declaration from public to protected (or any other change), the unserialized objects will have duplicated properties, once public and once protected, and the object will not be able to read the public value so it means the object state is broken. This is obviously due to the way the protected values are stored as "\0*\0property" => "value", but I still think the default unserializer code should check if "property" exists, and fill it no matter what the access level is, rather than creating another property with the same name. I don't know how easy it'd be and how it would impact performance though, but it's quite scary that the engine even allows having two properties with different access levels and the same name. Reproduce code: --------------- // Run once like this, then change public $property to protected $property, run again and look at var_dump output session_start(); class testClass { public $property; public function __construct($val) { $this->property = $val; } } if (!isset($_SESSION['obj'])) { $_SESSION['obj'] = new testClass('value'); } var_dump($_SESSION['obj']); Expected result: ---------------- object(testClass)[1] protected 'property' => string 'value' (length=5) Actual result: -------------- object(testClass)[1] protected 'property' => null public 'property' => string 'value' (length=5) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=51173&edit=1
