the problem with that, is that i really want to have
nested data. if i force myself to conform to a data
structure that can be CSV'd, i'd loose almost all of
the functionality of a hash, and kind-of defeat the
purpose of using a serialized hash in the first place :(
i'm probably going to have to write a perl interface
to mimick PHP's serialization behaviour...
if i do have to write my own, i'll be sure to post
it to the list for anyone else that might need
to do something similar....
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Grabowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 5:56 PM
> To: scott [gts]; perl
> Subject: Re: perl and php data-structure interoperability
>
>
> > of course, i could roll my own, but before i go to the
> > trouble of writing a whole php-compatible serialize and
> > deserialize module for perl, can anyone offer any help
> > or suggestions on how to make PHP and Perl recognize each
> > other's serialized data?
>
> I would serialize things into a CSV string with even elements being keys and
> odd elements being values. I don't think you'll be able to come up with a
> cross-language way of doing nested data structures but most langues have
> native support for CSV fields ( things that take care of commas in your text
> string and other gotchas for CSV ).
>
> An even safer bet would be to store the data as an escaped() URL string
> ?key1=val1&key2=val2 ).
>
>
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