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Is there object persistence in PHP 5?

I ask because it seems that with all the associated memory overhead with OOP, I am wondering if there is another reason for PHP to go OOP besides maintainability.

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Since it is stateless you can't persist objects across requests without storing to a file in some way be it a database, cookie(session) or some other flatfile. Not to mention maintainability is one very unimportant reason to pick OOP.

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Specifically for this purpose, you would likely use serialize and its opposite, unserialize, to store an object as text.

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