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PHP::Serialization(3) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | PHP::Serialization(3) |
NAME¶
PHP::Serialization - simple flexible means of converting the output of PHP's serialize() into the equivalent Perl memory structure, and vice versa.
SYNOPSIS¶
use PHP::Serialization qw(serialize unserialize); my $encoded = serialize({ a => 1, b => 2}); my $hashref = unserialize($encoded);
DESCRIPTION¶
Provides a simple, quick means of serializing perl memory structures (including object data!) into a format that PHP can deserialize() and access, and vice versa.
NOTE: Converts PHP arrays into Perl Arrays when the PHP array used exclusively numeric indexes, and into Perl Hashes then the PHP array did not.
FUNCTIONS¶
Exportable functions..
serialize($var,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])¶
Serializes the memory structure pointed to by $var, and returns a scalar value of encoded data.
If the optional $asString is true, $var will be encoded as string if it is double or float.
If the optional $sortHashes is true, all hashes will be sorted before serialization.
NOTE: Will recursively encode objects, hashes, arrays, etc.
SEE ALSO: ->encode()
unserialize($encoded,[optional CLASS])¶
Deserializes the encoded data in $encoded, and returns a value (be it a hashref, arrayref, scalar, etc) representing the data structure serialized in $encoded_string.
If the optional CLASS is specified, any objects are blessed into CLASS::$serialized_class. Otherwise, O bjects are blessed into PHP::Serialization::Object::$serialized_class. (which has no methods)
SEE ALSO: ->decode()
METHODS¶
Functionality available if using the object interface..
decode($encoded_string,[optional CLASS])¶
Deserializes the encoded data in $encoded, and returns a value (be it a hashref, arrayref, scalar, etc) representing the data structure serialized in $encoded_string.
If the optional CLASS is specified, any objects are blessed into CLASS::$serialized_class. Otherwise, Objects are blessed into PHP::Serialization::Object::$serialized_class. (which has no methods)
SEE ALSO: unserialize()
encode($reference,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])¶
Serializes the memory structure pointed to by $reference, and returns a scalar value of encoded data.
If the optional $asString is true, $reference will be encoded as string if it is double or float.
If the optional $sortHashes is true, all hashes will be sorted before serialization.
NOTE: Will recursively encode objects, hashes, arrays, etc.
SEE ALSO: serialize()
TODO¶
Support diffrent object types
AUTHOR INFORMATION¶
Copyright (c) 2003 Jesse Brown <jbrown@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Various patches contributed by assorted authors on rt.cpan.org (as detailed in Changes file).
Currently maintained by Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>.
Rewritten to solve all known bugs by Bjørn-Olav Strand <bolav@cpan.org>
POD ERRORS¶
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2011-03-04 | perl v5.40.0 |