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I have seen on a couple posts recently, about "serializin g" and
"unserializ ing" objects. What exactly does this mean?

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Chris Mosser
Jul 16 '05 #1
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Hi Chris,

you can transform an variable that contains anything (also an objects) into
a string e.g. for saving it in a database. You do that with the function
serialize (http://de3.php.net/manual/de/function.serialize.php) und undo it
(for restoring the vars) with unserialize. I'm not sure if there are
restrictions for objects so that they are not fully "serializab le" but
you'll get more information on the net or probably in the next posts,

Just Another Chris
Jul 16 '05 #2
thanks..at least I know where to start

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Chris Mosser
"christophe r vogt" <ch************ **@rwth-aachen.de> wrote in message
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Hi Chris,

you can transform an variable that contains anything (also an objects) into a string e.g. for saving it in a database. You do that with the function
serialize (http://de3.php.net/manual/de/function.serialize.php) und undo it (for restoring the vars) with unserialize. I'm not sure if there are
restrictions for objects so that they are not fully "serializab le" but
you'll get more information on the net or probably in the next posts,

Just Another Chris

Jul 16 '05 #3
"Chris Mosser" <cm*****@comcas t.net> wrote in message news:<q-*************** *****@comcast.c om>...
I have seen on a couple posts recently, about "serializin g" and
"unserializ ing" objects. What exactly does this mean?


A typical usage of this allows you to 'serialize' the variables in an
object into the $_SESSION array so that you can later reconstruct the
object with all its variables by using 'unserialize'.

Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net/
Jul 16 '05 #4

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