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cs278/serialization-helpers
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Helpers to work with serialized strings

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Serialization Helpers
=====================

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Helpers for dealing with strings created by the `serialize()` function in PHP.

Usage
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[](#usage)

`isSerialized($value)` — Test if a supplied value is a PHP serialized string, returns `true` iff the syntax looks correct. This function may produce false negatives because Zend PHP’s `unserialize()` implementation will work on malformed strings.

`isSerialized($value, &$result)` — As above but also returns the unserialized value by reference.

`unserialize($input)` — Converts the serialized input into a PHP data type, returns the resulting data type. If an error occurs during the unserialize operation a `SyntaxError` will be thrown.

Examples
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[](#examples)

### Test if a value is serialized:

[](#test-if-a-value-is-serialized)

`isSerialized($value)`

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