Re: Serializing data

On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Mika Tuupola wrote: > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Brent Cook wrote: > > > I've also been looking at wddx, which looks to be more amicable with other > > languages. However, it may not be widely available with PHP installations > > and I want to keep the prerequisites low. > > > > What say you? Should I stick with my old methods, write new ones, or is > > there something better? > > Even though wddx might not be available in all installations > I would atleast include (optional) support for it. For some weird > reason I like wddx. I'm sure that it's not an uncommon affliction. I'm now thinking of using wddx by default and serialize as a fall-back. If there are different formats however, I need auto-detect support and would like at least two languages to support everything. Differentiating wddx from serialize() shouldn't be a big deal; just compare the first characters of the stream: '<' for wddx, 'a' for serialize(array). They're both supported by PHP and Perl, and wddx is supported in just about everything. Thanks - Brent