Parse a session data with regex - php

Question

I have a data that came from a session and I want to parse base on regex. Below are the 3 data that I want to get login, firstName and lastName.
login = James
firstName = James.S
lastName = Steal
Array (
[user] => __PHP_Incomplete_Class Object (
[__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name] => DEX_User
[permissionID:DE_User:private] => 9
[login:DE_User:private] => James.S
[email:DE_User:private] => james.s#domain.com
[firstName:DE_User:private] => James
[lastName:DE_User:private] => Steal
[title:DE_User:private] => Warehouse Man
[manager:DE_User:private] => Manager's Name
[workPhone:DE_User:private] => [phone]
[mobilePhone:DE_User:private] => [phone]
[homePhone:DE_User:private] => [phone]
[im:DE_User:private] =>
[timeDelta:DE_User:private] => Asia/Hongkong
[lastLogin:DE_User:private] => __PHP_Incomplete_Class Object (
[__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name] => GB_Date
[valueStored:protected] => 13545544126666309821
[mode:protected] => BASE
[master:protected] =>
)
[description:DE_User:private] => Warehouse Engineer
[isActive:DE_User:private] => __PHP_Incomplete_Class Object (
[__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name] => GB_Boolean
[valueStored:protected] => 1
[mode:protected] => BASE
[master:protected] =>
)
[isTerminate:DE_User:private] => __PHP_Incomplete_Class Object (
[__PHP_Incomplete_Class_Name] => GB_Boolean
[valueStored:protected] =>
[mode:protected] => BASE
[master:protected] =>
)
[id:protected] => 231968
[isModifyed:protected] =>
[needInsert:protected] =>
[isDeleted] =>
[isRemoved] =>
)
[enter_password] => 2asas(qwqw)
I tried to perform regexp '/\[[\/]?[A-Za-z0-9]+\]/'; but i can only get that inside the bracket.
Thank you.

Answer 1

Instead of parsing it using RegExp you may evaluate it.
Take a look at var_export($_SESSION['user']); . This returns a parseable string, the only problem you will see there is :
__PHP_Incomplete_Class::__set_state
"__PHP_Incomplete_Class" means, the class was unknown when the Session was started, the string still can't be parsed.
But you can take the string returned by var_export($_SESSION['user'],true) , replace the occurences of __PHP_Incomplete_Class::__set_state with array and the string can be evaluated:
eval('$user='.str_replace('__PHP_Incomplete_Class::__set_state',
'array',
var_export($_SESSION['user'],true)).';');
echo $user[0]['login'].',<br/>'.
$user[0]['firstName'].',<br/>'.
$user[0]['lastName'];