Comments on: Reading Serialized PHP Objects from Erlang

By: myrnacid

myrnacid — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:22:09 +0000

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By: emilio

emilio — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:19:11 +0000

sorry, I forgot to add:
and why in the second array is there not an i:0? eg.
a:2:{s:1:”a”;….

based on the first portion of the code, I would have expected:
a:2:{i:0;s:1:”a”;

why is there no reference to index in the second array?

thanks for any advice, and if you can point me to a reference I would be VERY grateful because I have large, complex data structure serialized (composed of many objects and data types) and its a little hairy at the moment.

By: emilio

emilio — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:04:54 +0000

I am having a hard time deciphering the serialized string. In your example above, your array is serialized as:
a:4:{i:0;i:123;i:1;s:5:”hello”;…

this is confusing to me. if the syntax is i:0 means index = 0, and i:123 means the value at [0] = 123, how does unserialize know whether the i: means the index or the value?

sorry if thats a dumb question, i can’t find any information about this syntax anywhere.

By: myracer

myracer — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 11:57:39 +0000

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By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:07:12 +0000

Yep GPLv2 – i should make that more visible.
I’ve also rolled a php-eval server in erlang, maybe i’ll dust it off and publish it soon :)

By: Andy Skelton

Andy Skelton — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:48:11 +0000

I didn’t see the low-contrast message in the footer before. GPLv2 then. Thanks.

By: Andy Skelton

Andy Skelton — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:44:55 +0000

Thanks! I used this code in a gen_server that provides PHP eval access within Erlang. Under what license do you release this?

By: RJ

RJ — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:38:26 +0000

Erm, I don’t know exactly what facebook do, but i think i read somewhere that they do use thrift for serializing php objects, yes.

Sadly changing our php serialization format isn’t gonna happen, hence the need for the above code.

By: John Wright

John Wright — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:02:52 +0000

Do you all use Thrift at Facebook to serialize PHP objects? It comes with built-in PHP and Erlang generators.