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126 .IX Title "PHP::Serialization 3"
127 .TH PHP::Serialization 3 "2010-03-18" "perl v5.8.8" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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133 PHP::Serialization \- simple flexible means of converting the output of PHP's serialize() into the equivalent Perl memory structure, and vice versa.
135 .IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
137 \& use PHP::Serialization qw(serialize unserialize);
138 \& my $encoded = serialize({ a => 1, b => 2});
139 \& my $hashref = unserialize($encoded);
142 .IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
143 Provides a simple, quick means of serializing perl memory structures (including object data!) into a format that \s-1PHP\s0 can \fIdeserialize()\fR and access, and vice versa.
145 \&\s-1NOTE:\s0 Converts \s-1PHP\s0 arrays into Perl Arrays when the \s-1PHP\s0 array used exclusively numeric indexes, and into Perl Hashes then the \s-1PHP\s0 array did not.
147 .IX Header "FUNCTIONS"
148 Exportable functions..
149 .ie n .SS "serialize($var,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])"
150 .el .SS "serialize($var,[optional \f(CW$asString\fP,[optional \f(CW$sortHashes\fP]])"
151 .IX Subsection "serialize($var,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])"
152 Serializes the memory structure pointed to by \f(CW$var\fR, and returns a scalar value of encoded data.
154 If the optional \f(CW$asString\fR is true, \f(CW$var\fR will be encoded as string if it is double or float.
156 If the optional \f(CW$sortHashes\fR is true, all hashes will be sorted before serialization.
158 \&\s-1NOTE:\s0 Will recursively encode objects, hashes, arrays, etc.
160 \&\s-1SEE\s0 \s-1ALSO:\s0 \->\fIencode()\fR
161 .SS "unserialize($encoded,[optional \s-1CLASS\s0])"
162 .IX Subsection "unserialize($encoded,[optional CLASS])"
163 Deserializes the encoded data in \f(CW$encoded\fR, and returns a value (be it a hashref, arrayref, scalar, etc)
164 representing the data structure serialized in \f(CW$encoded_string\fR.
166 If the optional \s-1CLASS\s0 is specified, any objects are blessed into CLASS::$serialized_class. Otherwise, O
167 bjects are blessed into PHP::Serialization::Object::$serialized_class. (which has no methods)
169 \&\s-1SEE\s0 \s-1ALSO:\s0 \->\fIdecode()\fR
172 Functionality available if using the object interface..
173 .SS "decode($encoded_string,[optional \s-1CLASS\s0])"
174 .IX Subsection "decode($encoded_string,[optional CLASS])"
175 Deserializes the encoded data in \f(CW$encoded\fR, and returns a value (be it a hashref, arrayref, scalar, etc)
176 representing the data structure serialized in \f(CW$encoded_string\fR.
178 If the optional \s-1CLASS\s0 is specified, any objects are blessed into CLASS::$serialized_class. Otherwise,
179 Objects are blessed into PHP::Serialization::Object::$serialized_class. (which has no methods)
181 \&\s-1SEE\s0 \s-1ALSO:\s0 \fIunserialize()\fR
182 .ie n .SS "encode($reference,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])"
183 .el .SS "encode($reference,[optional \f(CW$asString\fP,[optional \f(CW$sortHashes\fP]])"
184 .IX Subsection "encode($reference,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])"
185 Serializes the memory structure pointed to by \f(CW$reference\fR, and returns a scalar value of encoded data.
187 If the optional \f(CW$asString\fR is true, \f(CW$reference\fR will be encoded as string if it is double or float.
189 If the optional \f(CW$sortHashes\fR is true, all hashes will be sorted before serialization.
191 \&\s-1NOTE:\s0 Will recursively encode objects, hashes, arrays, etc.
193 \&\s-1SEE\s0 \s-1ALSO:\s0 \fIserialize()\fR
196 Support diffrent object types
197 .SH "AUTHOR INFORMATION"
198 .IX Header "AUTHOR INFORMATION"
199 Copyright (c) 2003 Jesse Brown <jbrown@cpan.org>. All rights reserved. This program is free software;
200 you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
202 Various patches contributed by assorted authors on rt.cpan.org (as detailed in Changes file).
204 Currently maintained by Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>.
206 Rewritten to solve all known bugs by BjA\*~Xrn\-Olav Strand <bolav@cpan.org>