NOTE

This repo is for use by Identity while we transition legacy login flows onto our new SSO platform. This fork will be deleted when Identity no longer needs to maintain the legacy PHP-generated prodigyweb cookie.

Please don't consume this repo or commit any new code to it unless aboslutely necessary, and if you do please let us know in #identity on Slack.

Ruby PHP Serializer

This module provides two methods: PHP.serialize and PHP.unserialize, both of which should be compatible with the similarly named functions in PHP.

Installing

In your Gemfile:

gem "php-serialize"

Usage

PHP.serialize({'foo' => 'bar'})               #=> "a:1:{s:3:\"foo\";s:3:\"bar\";}"
PHP.unserialize('a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}') #=> {"foo"=>"bar"}

PHP.unserialize can also read PHP sessions, which are collections of named serialized objects. These can be reserialized using PHP.serialize_session, which has the same semantics as PHP.serialize, but which only supports Hash and associative Arrays for the root object.

See http://php.net/serialize and http://php.net/unserialize for details on the PHP side of all this.

Acknowledgements

• TJ Vanderpoel, initial PHP serialized session support.
• Philip Hallstrom, fix for self-generated Structs on unserialization.
• Edward Speyer, fix for assoc serialization in nested structures.

Author: Thomas Hurst tom@hur.st, http://hur.st/