[phplib-users] $class->classname

[Lindsay H. <fmo...@fm...>]

Rather than trying to cover all possible bases, I'll focus on one issue
at a time.

What's the purpose and function of PHPlib's classname property which
occurs throughout local4.inc where classes are extended with
user-supplied names?  PHP4 and PHP5 provide the get_class() and
get_parent_class() functions which return the names of classes.  Would
it not be possible to drop the classname property altogether and rely on
these functions if class name information is needed?  The PHPlib
documentation is pretty ambiguous on this matter, and seems to imply
that at this point in the evolution of PHPlib, setting $classname is
optional, although I believe that under PHP3 it wasn't.

I'm trying to iron out and understand the dependencies and relationships
between session names (PHP's session_name() func), cookie names, the
$name property of session objects and the $classname property.  These
are rather tangled up in the PHPlib code, and if anyone can give me some
insight on how they relate and what they're used for I'd appreciate it.
It looks a bit like a case of legacy code getting overlaid but not
replaced by newer data structures.

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