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NAME
       PHP::Serialization - simple flexible means of converting the output of
       PHP's serialize() into the equivalent Perl memory structure, and vice
       versa.

SYNOPSIS
           use PHP::Serialization qw(serialize unserialize);
           my $encoded = serialize({ a => 1, b => 2});
           my $hashref = unserialize($encoded);

DESCRIPTION
       Provides a simple, quick means of serializing perl memory structures
       (including object data!) into a format that PHP can deserialize() and
       access, and vice versa.

       NOTE: Converts PHP arrays into Perl Arrays when the PHP array used
       exclusively numeric indexes, and into Perl Hashes then the PHP array
       did not.

FUNCTIONS
       Exportable functions..

   serialize($var,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])
       Serializes the memory structure pointed to by $var, and returns a
       scalar value of encoded data.

       If the optional $asString is true, $var will be encoded as string if it
       is double or float.

       If the optional $sortHashes is true, all hashes will be sorted before
       serialization.

       NOTE: Will recursively encode objects, hashes, arrays, etc.

       SEE ALSO: ->encode()

   unserialize($encoded,[optional CLASS])
       Deserializes the encoded data in $encoded, and returns a value (be it a
       hashref, arrayref, scalar, etc) representing the data structure
       serialized in $encoded_string.

       If the optional CLASS is specified, any objects are blessed into
       CLASS::$serialized_class. Otherwise, O bjects are blessed into
       PHP::Serialization::Object::$serialized_class. (which has no methods)

       SEE ALSO: ->decode()

METHODS
       Functionality available if using the object interface..

   decode($encoded_string,[optional CLASS])
       Deserializes the encoded data in $encoded, and returns a value (be it a
       hashref, arrayref, scalar, etc) representing the data structure
       serialized in $encoded_string.

       If the optional CLASS is specified, any objects are blessed into
       CLASS::$serialized_class. Otherwise, Objects are blessed into
       PHP::Serialization::Object::$serialized_class. (which has no methods)

       SEE ALSO: unserialize()

   encode($reference,[optional $asString,[optional $sortHashes]])
       Serializes the memory structure pointed to by $reference, and returns a
       scalar value of encoded data.

       If the optional $asString is true, $reference will be encoded as string
       if it is double or float.

       If the optional $sortHashes is true, all hashes will be sorted before
       serialization.

       NOTE: Will recursively encode objects, hashes, arrays, etc.

       SEE ALSO: serialize()

TODO
       Support diffrent object types

AUTHOR INFORMATION
       Copyright (c) 2003 Jesse Brown <jbrown@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

       Various patches contributed by assorted authors on rt.cpan.org (as
       detailed in Changes file).

       Currently maintained by Tomas Doran <bobtfish@bobtfish.net>.

       Rewritten to solve all known bugs by Bjørn-Olav Strand <bolav@cpan.org>

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