note 47809 deleted from function.serialize by aharvey
| From: | aharvey@php.net | Date: | Tue, 06 Nov 2012 02:06:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 47809 deleted from function.serialize by aharvey | ||
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Note Submitter:
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This is just a modification of what Alan Reddan (areddan at silverarm dot ie) posted below.
I figured it would be faster than walking an array, and it works wonderfully with cookies
<?php
$data[qwerty] = "blah";
$data[1][a] = "1aa";
$data[2][b] = "2bb";
$data[3][c] = ";;;;;;";
$data[name][first] = "Bob";
$data[name][last] = "Jones";
$data[val] = "This is a real long test string, to see how well the compression works!";
//To Serialise Call :
$string = gzcompress(serialize($data), 9);
setcookie("my_var", $string, time()+60*60*24*60, '/');
//print "String: $string\n<br>"; //uncomment to see serialized array
//To Unserialize Call
if (isset($_COOKIE[my_var])) {
$array = unserialize(gzuncompress($_COOKIE[my_var]));
echo "<pre>";
print_r($array);
echo "</pre>";
}
?>
you can replace gzcompress with base64_encode and gzuncompress with base64_decode to have a similar
experience
Alan, thanks for the tip though, it got me where I wanted to be!