RE: [PHP] something like a C "struct" or "union" in PHP?

Hi Yasuo, thanks for the hint ... I'll give WDDX a try after some thought (and because I am using XML anyway). Regards, Arne > -----Original Message----- > From: Yasuo Ohgaki [mailto:yohgaki@hotmail.com] > Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2001 2:11 PM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: Re: [PHP] something like a C "struct" or "union" in PHP? > > > PHP does not have struct. You can do similar things with class or > array. You > probably interested in wddx serialize or serialize function to > make it work your > snippet. > > Regards, > -- > Yasuo Ohgaki > > > ""Arne Borkowski (borko.net)"" <arne@borko.net> wrote in message > news:NEBBKBGNJKHCFGAFLHOAOEKCEEAA.arne@borko.net... > > Hi Folks, > > > > I want to do the following: > > > > > > $f = fopen($filename", "r"); > > > > while( !feof($f) ) { > > $len=1; > > $RECSIZE=128 > > > > while($n=1;$n<=$len;$n++) > > $data = fread($f, $RECSIZE); > > > > $rectype = $data[4]; > > > > switch($rectype) { > > > > case "A": $numARec++; > > $len=1; > > > > // do something with the > > // contents of $data > > > > break; > > > > case "C": $numCRec++; > > $len=2; // at least! > > > > // do something with the > > // contents of $data > > > > break; > > > > case "E": $numERec++; > > $len=1; > > > > // do something with the > > // contents of $data > > > > break; > > } /* switch */ > > > > fclose($f); > > > > } /* while */ > > > > This snippet reads a data file in 128 bytes truncs > > and needs to analyse the contents. As each 128 bytes > > trunc has a certain structure (say: fields to access) > > I would appreciate a thing like a C "struct" or so. > > > > In C I could eaysly read the RECSIZE bytes into a > > struct and access certain bytes via a "named" part > > of it. Is there anything similar to this in PHP? I > > couldn't find a "struct" or so in the manual. The > > site's search engine said 41 hits for "struct" in > > the Web Site content, but didn't show the matching > > docs?! I need help on "struct" from you guys! > > > > TIA > > > > -Arne > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >