Passing classes from page to page

The scenario: Lets say you have a customer who is buying something. The customer is checking out, because he is done shopping. You have setup two pages, one with his personal information such as name address etc. and the other with the billing information. Since you are so organized and neat, you don't want to jumble the page with form fields so you decided to have two separate pages.

You think to yourself, "Wow, that's allot of variables to keep track of!". You ponder how much work this will be and you finally come up with a solution: You will use a class to store the information!

After designing and building a class, you sit back and sip your beer. Unfortunately you cant enjoy that sip because you realized that you have no idea how you are going to send the information from page one over to page two!

Well, I'm going to show you how to move your classes and your data that's held in them from page to page.

This will held in your class.php file. You will need to include this in every page you want to access your class and its data.

<?PHP
class cMyClass {

var $Name;

function PrintName() {

echo "Your name is ".$this->Name;
return true;

}

}
?>

This page will be what you submit your personal information to.

<?PHP
include("./class.php");

$myClass = new cMyClass;

$myClass->Name = $HTTP_POST_VARS["Name"];

... //other code you have

$_SESSION["MyClassData"] = serialize($myClass);

?>

This page will display their information to them. The information that was carried over from page to page on the site.

<?PHP
include("./class.php");

$temp = $_SESSION["MyClassData"];

$myClass = unserialize($temp);

$myClass->PrintName();

?>