[JAVASCRIPT] Javascript Serialize

[shachi]

1) CODE TITLE: Javascript serializer

2) AUTHOR NAME/NOTES: Shachi Bista

3) DESCRIPTION: Serializes any string like the traditional PHP serialize function

4) URL TO CODE:

or, ATTACHED BELOW (see #3 in guidelines below):

[mburt]

I'm not quite sure I understand... What exactly does it do?

[shachi]

You would if you used the php serialize() function. Anyways it converts any plain text like this:

test
array(1,2,"b");

to:

s:4:"test"
a:3{i:0;i:1;i:1;i:2;i:3;i:"b"}

If you still don't get it then I suggest you to download the zip and check the html file. Even PHP sessions are in these formats.

Hope it helps.

[Twey]

Under SpiderMonkey:

jserialize.js:10: SyntaxError: final is a reserved identifier:
jserialize.js:10:               final = "a:"+item.length+":{";
jserialize.js:10: ................^

Changing this, it doesn't produce the same output as PHP serialize(). Compare:

twey@peordh ~/Documents/ddstuff $ js -f jserialize.js -f -
js> var a = [];

js> a.push(a);
1
js> serialize(a);
a:1:{i:0;a:1:{i:0;a:;}}

twey@peordh ~/Documents/ddstuff $ php
<?php
  $a = array();
  array_push($a, $a);
  print serialize($a);
?>
a:1:{i:0;a:0:{}}

[shachi]

Twey: Haven't tested it in all browsers. I never knew that even final was a reserved word. Too bad. Do you think changing that varname will fix the error?

[Twey]

It does. However, the difference in output remains.

[shachi]

It does. However, the difference in output remains.

How come??

[Twey]

Sorry, I modified my above post, apparently after you read it.

[mburt]

Umm yeah... Well. I have a question, what does the "final" keyword signify?

[shachi]

mburt: I just have no idea.

Twey: I've got to fix that too, that goes into my TODO list, Thank you for pointing that out Twey. If I am lucky enough I'll certainly fix it.

There still are a lot of bugs that needs to be fixed. This is just an experimental script I created for AJAX to transfer and convert js arrays so that PHP can interpret them.