March 2002
Intermediate to advanced
528 pages
21h 29m
English
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Name
serialize
Synopsis
string serialize(mixed value)
Returns a string containing a binary data representation of
value. This string can be used to store
the data in a database or file, for example, and later restored using
unserialize( ). Except for resources, any kind of
value can be serialized.