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v0.1 pre-alpha · May 19, 2004
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NOTE: This code is not anywhere near complete or correct.

This code is my attempt one boring day to write something in java that would serialize and unserialize to PHP's serialization format (similar to what i did with perl and python)

Overview

I wrapped all unserialized values in a "PHPValue" wrapper class that would help me avoid dealing with java's type system. When a string, integer, etc... is unserialized, the unserialize method returns a PHPValue class containing the unserialized value, which can then be interpreted by the java code however it needs to be.

Serializing to PHP

serializing kinda-sorta works, but is probably broken, it's more elegant than unserializing and shows more promise of one day being useful.

Un-serializing from PHP

unserializing is a bad hack and is mostly broken.

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v0.1 alpha - May 19, 2004