Nathan Nobbe wrote:
all, i have recently stumbled upon the pack<http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pack.php>method. can this be used as a substitute for serialize<http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php> ?
No. pack() is for creating binary representations of data, while serialize() returns a text representation of a PHP sitructure, (for objects the class must be loaded before you unserialize it).
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