Make $_SESSION work as session_register

Question

I changed my session_register for $_SESSION, meanwhile $_SESSION does not allow me to use the variable in the same way session_register.

For being deprecated I thought they corresponded to the same thing. However the use after the declaration is quite different, session variables generated by session_register can be used normally, pluses for $_SESSION cannot.

$nome = "Haxz";
session_register("nome");

After the statement, simply using $nome it already returns the value. As a common variable.

$_SESSION["nome"] = "Haxz";

Does not allow me to use the variable as $nome, only as $_SESSION["nome"].

What puzzles me is that both can be tested the same way isset($_SESSION["nome"]) and in the print_r($_SESSION), are shown equal.

I don’t want to change my whole project (it’s pretty big) How to make the $_SESSION["nome"] answer equal to session_register("nome") ? (answer in order to be able to work with only one variable $nome correspondent.)

Answer 1

Don’t do this.

Just do it at the end of the code:

    $_SESSION['nome'] = $nome;

And at first recover with

    $nome = $_SESSION['nome'];

...But if you really want to do it, one solution would be this:

function meu_session_register($nome){
    global $$nome;
    $_SESSION[$nome] = $$nome;
    $$nome = &$_SESSION[$nome]; 
}

Explanation:

• first, we declare a global variable with the same $nome of the variable;

• then we save in the session the value

• then we re-assign the value to the variable by passing by reference (&), for subsequent changes to change the session value.