Re: "php_serialize" session serialize handler

From: Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 09:29:52 +0000
Subject: Re: "php_serialize" session serialize handler
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Leigh wrote:

    How php_serialize would cause BC issues for PHP users?


Not everyone uses PHP in the way you would expect. Just how many sites out there
do you think use PHPs session functionality? I'd go for hundreds of millions,
and that's a pretty big target to hit.

If you session_encode() something on 5.x with default settings and 5.x+1 cannot
session_decode() it with default settings, that is a BC break.


My own concerns with much of this are due to third party libraries using some 'new approach' which requires a particular setup such as changing a default, but another library still requires the old way of working. THAT is the problem.

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