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bert/bert
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A BERT (Binary ERlang Term) serialization library.

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\##Note - Work in progress
This is a fork of
I made it composer compatible and eleminated the fdopen dependency.

BERT
====

[](#bert)

A BERT (Binary ERlang Term) serialization library for PHP based on [Tom Preston-Werner's Ruby implementation](http://github.com/mojombo/bert).

It can encode PHP objects into BERT format and decode BERT binaries into PHP objects.

See the BERT specification at [bert-rpc.org](http://bert-rpc.org).

To designate an atom, use the Bert::a() helper or the Bert\_Atom class. To designate tuples, use the Bert::t() helper or the Bert\_Tuple class:

```
Bert::t(Bert::a('foo'), array(1, 2, 3))
new Bert_Tuple(array(new Bert_Atom('foo'), array(1, 2, 3)))

```

These will both be converted to (in Erlang syntax):

```
{foo, [1, 2, 3]}

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
require_once 'classes/Bert.php'

$bert = Bert::encode(
  Bert::t(
    Bert::a('user'),
    array('name' => 'TPW', 'nick' => 'mojombo')
  )
);
# => string(82) "#hduserhdbertddictllmnamemTPWjlmnickmmojombojj"

Bert::decode($bert);
# => Bert_Tuple (
       Bert_Atom ( 'user' ),
       Array (
         'name' => 'TPW',
         'nick' => 'mojombo'
       )
     )

```

###  Health Score

20

—

LowBetter than 13% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity8

Limited adoption so far

Community4

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity41

Maturing project, gaining track record

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

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