| PHP::Serialization(3pm) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | PHP::Serialization(3pm) |
PHP::Serialization - simple flexible means of converting the output of PHP's serialize() into the equivalent Perl memory structure, and vice versa.
use PHP::Serialization qw(serialize unserialize);
my $encoded = serialize({ a => 1, b => 2});
my $hashref = unserialize($encoded);
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.
Exportable functions..
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()
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()
Functionality available if using the object interface..
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()
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()
Support diffrent object types
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>
| 2018-02-17 | perl v5.26.1 |