RE: [PHP4BETA] class serialize/unserialize implementation.
| From: | Samuel Liddicott | Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 1999 15:17:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP4BETA] class serialize/unserialize implementation. | ||
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thies C. Arntzen [mailto:thies@digicol.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 03:44 PM
> To: Samuel Liddicott
> Cc: php4beta@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP4BETA] class serialize/unserialize implementation.
>
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
>
> > So if as currently the classname is serialized with the object,
> how do you
> > read the classname back first before you call unserialise?
>
> the script *has* to have the class availavle *BEFORE* using unserialize -
> elsewise unserialize will simply ignore the object.
>
> i could convert the object for an unknown class to a "normal" array -
> that's more or less how php3 did it:
So whats the benefit of the recent change to store the classname when
serialized?
Sam