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Posted by powellgg on 12/21/06 04:17
Thanks for the info! Fortunately or unfortunately I was hired for the
purpose of doing this. The organization went through a process of
determining whether to stay with PHP or move to .Net. I wasn't privy
to those meetings so I have no idea what the discussions where like...
but the end result is they hired me to do this. But I am sure I will
definitely learn some PHP along the way :)
Toby Inkster wrote:
> powellgg wrote:
>
> > .Net has no corresponding method for unserialize() and I can't find
> > where the page/site does the initial serialization. Is there an
> > underlying serialization when it is creating the cookie? If the first
> > line is setting a null value to the cookie, why would the second line
> > try to read it? It's going to be the same every time... right?
>
> serialize() converts from a nested array structure to a string.
> unserialize() converts back the other way. This provides a convenient
> method of storing a nested array structure into a file, database or
> cookie.
>
> These functions are very PHP-specific, though some people have written
> functions to deal with PHP-style serialization in other languages. Of
> interest to you might be:
>
> http://csphpserial.sf.net/
>
> In general though, I tend to recommend *against* rewriting code just
> because it's in a language you don't know. You may have a very good
> reason to be rewriting this website, but do consider whether a full
> rewrite is the best solution, or whether it might be better to learn
> some PHP and maintain the website that way. It's always a good idea
> to expand ones repetoire of skills.
>
> --
> Toby A Inkster BSc (Hons) ARCS
> Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact
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