Re: Storable: :freeze: Can php thaw?

Google Says both no and yes. General consensus is that you should pick a more portable storage method such as YAML or JSON, but this guy claims to have written a PHP version of the Storable interface. Not sure whether it will actually work, but it's a place to start

print pack("A25",pack("V*",map{1919242272+$_}(34481450,-49737472,6228,0,-285028276,6979,-1380265972)))

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Re^2: Storable: :freeze: Can php thaw? by cormanaz (Deacon) on Oct 17, 2009 at 21:00 UTC
Well I investigated this. It only has store and retrieve methods (i.e. for data serialized to file) not freeze/thaw. I did not test the retrieve function, but it looks pretty straightforward--it parses the file and uses a php unserialize function to put it back into a data structure. I tried to see if I could feed the frozen object to that function, because I suppose in principle that out to work. Unfortunately it expects a string and the frozen object is binary, and I'm not enough of a php wizzard to figure out how to decode it two bytes at a time to a string--if that's even possible.	[reply]
Re^2: Storable: :freeze: Can php thaw? by cormanaz (Deacon) on Oct 17, 2009 at 18:25 UTC
Thanks bv. Yeah it would be better to use YAML or JSON but unfortunately the data already exists in Storable. I looked around on Google before I posted here, don't know how I missed that one. I will update once I find out if it works.	[reply]
Re^2: Storable: :freeze: Can php thaw? by stonecolddevin (Parson) on Oct 17, 2009 at 21:47 UTC
JSON/YAML route ftw on this I think. Human readable and it's well supported on each end. mtfnpy	[reply]