<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>Serialize an ArrayObject</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="arrayobject.offsetunset.html">ArrayObject::offsetUnset</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="arrayobject.setflags.html">ArrayObject::setFlags</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.arrayobject.html">ArrayObject</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="arrayobject.serialize" class="refentry"> <div class="refnamediv"> <h1 class="refname">ArrayObject::serialize</h1> <p class="verinfo">(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0)</p><p class="refpurpose"><span class="refname">ArrayObject::serialize</span> — <span class="dc-title">Serialize an ArrayObject</span></p> </div> <div class="refsect1 description" id="refsect1-arrayobject.serialize-description"> <h3 class="title">Description</h3> <div class="methodsynopsis dc-description"> <span class="modifier">public</span> <span class="type"><span class="type void">void</span></span> <span class="methodname"><strong>ArrayObject::serialize</strong></span> ( <span class="methodparam">void</span> )</div> <p class="para rdfs-comment"> Serializes an <a href="class.arrayobject.html" class="classname">ArrayObject</a>. </p> <div class="warning"><strong class="warning">Warning</strong><p class="simpara">This function is currently not documented; only its argument list is available. </p></div> </div> <div class="refsect1 parameters" id="refsect1-arrayobject.serialize-parameters"> <h3 class="title">Parameters</h3> <p class="para">This function has no parameters.</p> </div> <div class="refsect1 returnvalues" id="refsect1-arrayobject.serialize-returnvalues"> <h3 class="title">Return Values</h3> <p class="para"> The serialized representation of the <a href="class.arrayobject.html" class="classname">ArrayObject</a>. </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 examples" id="refsect1-arrayobject.serialize-examples"> <h3 class="title">Examples</h3> <p class="para"> <div class="example" id="example-3993"> <p><strong>Example #1 <span class="methodname"><strong>ArrayObject::serialize()</strong></span> example</strong></p> <div class="example-contents"> <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: #000000"> <span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br />$o </span><span style="color: #007700">= new </span><span style="color: #0000BB">ArrayObject</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$s1 </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">serialize</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$o</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">$s2 </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$o</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">serialize</span><span style="color: #007700">();<br /><br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$s1</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">var_dump</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$s2</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br /></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span> </span> </code></div> </div> <div class="example-contents"><p>The above example will output:</p></div> <div class="example-contents screen"> <div class="cdata"><pre> string(45) "C:11:"ArrayObject":21:{x:i:0;a:0:{};m:a:0:{}}" string(21) "x:i:0;a:0:{};m:a:0:{}" </pre></div> </div> </div> </p> </div> <div class="refsect1 seealso" id="refsect1-arrayobject.serialize-seealso"> <h3 class="title">See Also</h3> <p class="para"> <ul class="simplelist"> <li class="member"> <span class="methodname"><a href="arrayobject.unserialize.html" class="methodname" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">ArrayObject::unserialize()</a> - Unserialize an ArrayObject</span></li> <li class="member"> <span class="function"><a href="function.serialize.html" class="function" rel="rdfs-seeAlso">serialize()</a> - Generates a storable representation of a value</span></li> <li class="member"><a href="language.oop5.serialization.html" class="link">Serializing Objects</a></li> </ul> </p> </div> </div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="arrayobject.offsetunset.html">ArrayObject::offsetUnset</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="arrayobject.setflags.html">ArrayObject::setFlags</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="class.arrayobject.html">ArrayObject</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>