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msgpack/msgpack-php
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MessagePack serialization API

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Msgpack for PHP
===============

[](#msgpack-for-php)

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This extension provides an API for communicating with MessagePack serialization.

MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages just like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.

Requirement
-----------

[](#requirement)

- PHP 7.0 +

Install
-------

[](#install)

### Install from PECL

[](#install-from-pecl)

Msgpack is a PECL extension, thus you can simply install it by:

```
pecl install msgpack
```

### Compile Msgpack from source

[](#compile-msgpack-from-source)

```
/path/to/phpize
./configure --with-php-config=/path/to/php-config
make && make install
```

### Example

[](#example)

```