I've got a client who wants me to hack up their install of MoveableType however Sixapart's support forums have a bandwith exceeded error, so I'm going to ask here.

Basically there is a blob in the database which is the output from Storable.pm. Now the client wants a PHP script to query the db directly based on the information in that blob field. Is there a good way to get the data out of Storable.pm's output without using Perl?

So far the only think I can think of doing is running a Perl script to thaw the blob and then write it into some simple format that I can then use in PHP.

If there is something like an Idiot's guide to Storable.pm format, I'd love to find it (or maybe someone here can give a brief overview). I don't at all understand the format used by Storage.pm, which makes this a zillion times more difficult.

Thanks.

Edit:Fixed typo in module name. Thanks gellyfish.

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