Serializing Objects

[killerogue]

Earlier, I was questioning Inverness concerning a few things and also leaning a few things from him concerning a system I wanted to create for a project. He suggested I create a way to serialize and un-serialize objects into strings.

It will be useful for the system I'm planning and required a bit of tweaking, but I decided it could be somewhat useful for the public.

Use: These two functions are for turning the values of all the vars in an object into a long string. And vice versa.

Credits:To Inverness, for the idea as well as quite a bit of help with the upper function. (I.E. Basically giving me the answer , brain isn't functioning to well right now.)

PHP Code:

public function serialize(obj) { 
  temp.string;
  temp.var;
  
  for (var : obj.getDynamicVarNames()) {
    string @= obj.(@ var) @ ":";
  }
  return string; 
}

public function deserialize(string) {
  temp.array;
  temp.i;
  temp.sobj;
  
  if (string.type() != 1) 
    return;
  
  array = string.tokenize(":");
  
  for (i = 0; i < array.size(); i ++) {
    makevar("sobj.var" @ i) = array[i];
  }
  return sobj;
}