Re: Serializing references - part I

On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Stanislav Malyshev wrote: > Here goes a patch that should allow serializing references. As for now, it > works only for serialize($var), but if it's OK, it would be pretty easy to > extend it to other places. The only limitation is that both ends of the > reference should be in the serialized variable, otherwise there's no way > to know where is it. > > Please look at it and tell me if anyone has any objections or corrections > or "you are doing silly things"s for it. This can be improved by making the interface independent from the implementation. As your patch shows, changing the implementation requires changes all over our codebase which should not be necessary in the ideal case. I'm unsure about whether requiring users to register all references of a zval as session variables to maintain references makes sense. It is not something I'd like at all. - Sascha