Robert Cummings wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 15:36, Mark wrote: >> >> [-- CLIPPED --] >> >> Here's a point of debate, should this sort of behavior be allowed? If it >> is allowable, how does one support it in any sort of serialized >> methodology? I have a few ideas but none very pretty. I'm pretty sure it >> causes problems in regular PHP as these sorts of pages sometimes have >> problems anyway. > > Yes it should be allowed, yes you can serialize it. Look at PHP's > serializer. You'll notice they track recursive structures and properly > unserialize them. One way to do it is to unroll objects into a single > lookup. When you FIRST encounter an object assign it a unique ID (make > it a property on the object that is unlikely to collide with any other), This was that "but nove very pretty" options I was thinking about. > add the object to the lookup with the UID as the key and continue > serializing, the next time you encounter the object, you know you're > recursing and so in your serializer you have a special marker that > indicates the current object points to an existing serialized object > with the given UID. Then you move onto the next item. Your unserializer > will then be able to traverse the serialized data and as it comes across > objects it can create the same lookup and when it hits the recurse > marker it will know to create a reference to the original. > > The implementation is slightly more difficult than what I've just > described, but simple enough :) It's truly ugly, don't you think? > > HTH, > Rob. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
