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imsamurai/cakephp-serializable-behaviour
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Behavior for saving and reading serialized data from/into database

1.0.6(11y ago)147.7k3[1 issues](https://github.com/imsamurai/cakephp-serializable-behaviour/issues)3MITPHP

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API Documentation
-----------------

[](#api-documentation)

Check out [Serializable Behavior API Documentation](http://imsamurai.github.io/cakephp-serializable-behaviour/docs/master/)

Abstract
--------

[](#abstract)

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Serializable Behaviour for CakePHP 2.1+

Use it if you want to save and read serialized data into db.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
cd my_cake_app/app
git clone git://github.com/imsamurai/cakephp-serializable-behaviour.git Plugin/Serializable

```

or if you use git add as submodule:

```
cd my_cake_app
git submodule add "git://github.com/imsamurai/cakephp-serializable-behaviour.git" "app/Plugin/Serializable"

```

then add plugin loading in Config/bootstrap.php

```
CakePlugin::load('Serializable');

```

Configuration
-------------

[](#configuration)

Write global config if you need to use custom serialization function:

```
Configure::write('Serializable', array(
  'serialize' => ,
  'unserialize' =>
));

```

Attach behaviour to model:

```
public $actsAs = array(
      'Serializable.Serializable' => array(
        'fields' => ,
        'serialize' => , // optional
        'unserialize' =>  // optional
        'merge' => true // optional
      )
);

```

By default serialization uses function `serialize`, unserialization - `unserialize`Merging is off by default, turning it on will do a recursive merge on existing records so you can add data without replacing the entire serialized object.

Advanced usage
--------------

[](#advanced-usage)

If you want to use serialization with Containable behaviour you must modify your AppModel. For example we have 3 models that extedned AppModel: NewsPopular has many NewsPopularItem NewsPopularItem belongs to Article

NewsPopularItem and Article has some serialized fields.

Assume you want to fetch data this way:

```
$this->NewsPopular->contain(array(
		'NewsPopularItem' => array(
			'Article'
		)
	));
$data = $this->NewsPopular->find('first');

```

In this case you must add some configuration to AppModel::afterFind. In basic case there must be:

```
public function afterFind($results, $primary = false) {
	if (!$primary && $this->Behaviors->enabled('Serializable')) {
		return $this->Behaviors->Serializable->afterFind($this, $results, $primary);
	}
	return parent::afterFind($results, $primary);
}

```

And that's all! Now you have data structure with unserialized fields.

###  Health Score

36

—

LowBetter than 79% of packages

Maintenance19

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity27

Limited adoption so far

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity68

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 62.5% of commits — single point of failure

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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.

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###  Release Activity

Cadence

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Recently: every ~69 days

Total

7

Last Release

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### Community

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