Ruby PHP Serializer

This module provides two methods: PHP.serialize and PHP.unserialize, both of which should be compatible with the similarly named functions in PHP.

Installing

In your Gemfile:

gem "php-serialize"

Usage

PHP.serialize({'foo' => 'bar'})               #=> "a:1:{s:3:\"foo\";s:3:\"bar\";}"
PHP.unserialize('a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}') #=> {"foo"=>"bar"}

PHP.unserialize can also read PHP sessions, which are collections of named serialized objects. These can be reserialized using PHP.serialize_session, which has the same semantics as PHP.serialize, but which only supports Hash and associative Arrays for the root object.

See http://php.net/serialize and http://php.net/unserialize for details on the PHP side of all this.

Why this fork?

This fork was created to work with other applications that uses both PHP5 and PHP6 meaning we must be able to unserialize strings given in either bytesize or charsize. Only use this fork if this applies to your project.

Acknowledgements

• TJ Vanderpoel, initial PHP serialized session support.
• Philip Hallstrom, fix for self-generated Structs on unserialization.
• Edward Speyer, fix for assoc serialization in nested structures.

Author: Thomas Hurst tom@hur.st, http://hur.st/