Tag Archives: serialize

Serialization in Options: Cant see the Wood for the Trees

Posted on 9 Feb 2011 by hakre

Last night lying in the spa when I put my book aside, it popped into my mind: We were so looking for a practicable fast and general approach to check if an option value is serialized or not in worpdress, … Continue reading →

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Assorted Links of the Day

Posted on 5 Jan 2011 by hakre

Today there was pretty much work to do. These are my three links of the day: Drupal 7.0 is released! PHP Hangs On Numeric Value 2.2250738585072011e-308 serialize_precision

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Rules of Play – Faster is_serialized()

Posted on 17 Nov 2010 by hakre

It is interesting to see what happens when you throw a bunch of developers on a specific problem over time. While developing free software you can often benefit from things like code review and collective code ownership as well as … Continue reading →

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unserialize_callback_func

Posted on 14 Nov 2010 by hakre

unserialize_callback_func – just a note to myself about the php configuration directive (can be set on runtime) which can point to a function (string callback). It can take care of including the class definitions in case a serialized object is … Continue reading →

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PHP Serialize does References

Posted on 30 Oct 2010 by hakre

Just a note on my blog so this won’t get lost. PHP serialized vars support references and therefore somewhat need to deal with recursion: PHP Serialization And Recursion Demystified Read On: Serialization of double values in PHP 4 and PHP … Continue reading →

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Serialization of double values in PHP 4 and PHP 5

Posted on 23 Sep 2010 by hakre

If you want to save space in your serialized data of floating point numbers in PHP, consider to use PHP 4. Naturally that is a joke :), I just note it down here because while taking a closer look on … Continue reading →

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