On 16 Mar, 01:04, Daniel Klein <dani...@featherbrain.netwrote:
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It looks like I'm going to have to write programs in another language to
encode and decode php serialized data. I am really only interested in the
permutations of how it encodes multi-dimensioned arrays holding various data
types.
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Is there a formal spec for how serialize() does it's thing? I can certainly
intuit much of this from looking at the results but I don't want to miss
coding for some (obscure) data type.
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Daniel Klein
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Its fairly straightforward - if you serialize some stuff and write it
to disk you'll see - but it always feels wrong to me to use
serialization as a storage / messaging format since the format does
not seem to have a formal, published definition.
How painful could it it be to write the data in a format you define
yourself? Or use an off-the-shelf XML mapper?
C.
