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CIV. WDDX Functions

Introduzione

These functions are intended for work with .

Requisiti

In order to use WDDX, you will need to install the expat library (which comes with Apache 1.3.7 or higher).

Istallazione

After installing expat compile PHP with --with-xml and --enable-wddx.

Configurazione Runtime

Questa estensione non definisce alcuna direttiva di configurazione

Resource Type

Questa estensione non definisce alcun tipo di risorsa.

Costanti Predefinite

Questa estensione non definisce alcuna costante.

Esempi

All the functions that serialize variables use the first element of an array to determine whether the array is to be serialized into an array or structure. If the first element has string key, then it is serialized into a structure, otherwise, into an array.

Esempio 1. Serializing a single value

<?php
print wddx_serialize_value("PHP to WDDX packet example", "PHP packet");
?>

This example will produce:

<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header comment='PHP packet'/><data>
<string>PHP to WDDX packet example</string></data></wddxPacket>

Esempio 2. Using incremental packets

<?php
$pi = 3.1415926;
$packet_id = wddx_packet_start("PHP");
wddx_add_vars($packet_id, "pi");

/* Suppose $cities came from database */
$cities = array("Austin", "Novato", "Seattle");
wddx_add_vars($packet_id, "cities");

$packet = wddx_packet_end($packet_id);
print $packet;
?>

This example will produce:

<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header comment='PHP'/><data><struct>
<var name='pi'><number>3.1415926</number></var><var name='cities'>
<array length='3'><string>Austin</string><string>Novato</string>
<string>Seattle</string></array></var></struct></data></wddxPacket>

Nota: If you want to serialize non-ASCII characters you have to set the appropriate locale before doing so (see setlocale()).

Sommario
wddx_add_vars --  Add variables to a WDDX packet with the specified ID
wddx_deserialize -- Deserializes a WDDX packet
wddx_packet_end -- Ends a WDDX packet with the specified ID
wddx_packet_start --  Starts a new WDDX packet with structure inside it
wddx_serialize_value -- Serialize a single value into a WDDX packet
wddx_serialize_vars -- Serialize variables into a WDDX packet
User Contributed Notes
WDDX Functions
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[email protected]
26-May-1999 07:29

To make these examples work, you'll probably want to format the output with a call to htmlentities:

<pre>
$pi = 3.1415926;
$packet_id = wddx_packet_start("PHP");
wddx_add_vars($packet_id, "pi");

/* Suppose $cities came from database */
$cities = array("Austin", "Novato", "Seattle");
wddx_add_vars($packet_id, "cities");

$packet = wddx_packet_end($packet_id);
print htmlentities($packet);
</pre>

[email protected]
19-Oct-1999 03:45

Since there aren't any examples of reversing the process, here's one. If you had the packet produced by the above example (without the htmlentities() call), you could retrieve the values like this:

<pre>
$value = wddx_deserialize($packet);
print "pi is:
" . $value["pi"] . "

\n";
print "cities is:
\n";
while (list($key, $val) = each($value["cities"])) {
print "$key => $val
\n";
}
</pre>

which outputs:

<pre>
pi is:
3.1415926

cities is:
0 => Austin
1 => Novato
2 => Seattle
</pre>

[email protected]
20-Oct-1999 08:30

The PHP WDDX module encodes all scalars as strings in the XML packet, due to PHP's loose typing. The current Perl WDDX module takes a different approach, requiring the caller to mark each variable with a type. This is helpful if the reader of the packet is a more strongly typed language that distinguishes between string, int, float, and bool; but it's more cumbersome to use than the PHP approach. The Perl module is hard to find right now; its home page is:


<a href=">>

[email protected]
02-Mar-2000 10:36

I think it would be helpful for passing data between languages to show a direct translation of the above examples into Perl, using WDDX.pm 1.00 from CPAN. It took me awhile to figure out. To serialize:
<PRE>
#!/usr/bin/perl

use WDDX;

$wddx = new WDDX;
$packet_id = $wddx->struct({});

$pi = 3.1415926;
$packet_id->set("pi" => $wddx->number($pi));

# Suppose @cities came from database
@cities = ("Austin", "Novato", "Seattle");
$packet_id->set("cities" => $wddx->array([map $wddx->string($_), @cities]));

$packet = $wddx->serialize($packet_id);

open(FP, ">cities.wddx");
print FP $packet;
close(FP);
</PRE>


To deserialize:
<PRE>
#!/usr/bin/perl

use WDDX;

open(FP, "<cities.wddx");
undef $/; # Slurp the whole file.
$packet = <FP>;
close(FP);

$packet_id = new WDDX;
$wddx_obj = $packet_id->deserialize($packet);
$value = $wddx_obj->as_hashref();

print "pi is:
" . $value->{"pi"} . "

\n";
print "cities is:
\n";
$key = 0;
foreach $val (@{$value->{"cities"}}) {
print "$key => $val
\n";
$key++;
}
</PRE>

[email protected]
02-Mar-2000 10:50

Here's a rewrite of the deserializing Perl code that uses variable names consistently with the serializing example. Sorry for any confusion....
<PRE>
#!/usr/bin/perl

use WDDX;

open(FP, "<cities.wddx");
undef $/; # Slurp the whole file.
$packet = <FP>;
close(FP);

$wddx = new WDDX;
$packet_id = $wddx->deserialize($packet);
$value = $packet_id->as_hashref();

print "pi is:
" . $value->{"pi"} . "

\n";
print "cities is:
\n";
$key = 0;
foreach $val (@{$value->{"cities"}}) {
print "$key => $val
\n";
$key++;
}
</PRE>

[email protected]
09-May-2000 10:36

If you take a wddx recordset (I.E. in Cold Fusion) will Deserializing the packet create a Result varible?
philip@thepr()jects.()rg
17-Nov-2000 08:32

Tutorial here :

XML and PHP. Part 1: Using the WDDX functions

[email protected]
30-Jul-2002 02:02

With ref to the above comment about typing, I have found that -- oddly enough -- PHP's WDDX supports the following WDDX types: null, boolean (true/false), number and string, *but* not date-time.

as an example, use the following values in an array that you then serialize:

$number = 5,
$null = NULL,
$bool = true,
$string = 'this is a string'.

they will all serialize correctly, e.g. the third entry comes out as:

<var name='bool'><boolean value='true'/></var>

i have tried with the 'official' format for WDDX 'datetime', e.g. '1998-9-15T09:05:32+4:0' (from the DTD @ ) but have only succeeded in getting this encoded as a 'string' type.

if anyone else has any more information on this, it would be welcome. i would like to store the variables in 'appropriate' fields in a database, and the fact that only datetime is not supported is slightly irritating -- otherwise it would be a very useful function.

pointsystems.com, sbarnum
04-Sep-2002 05:11

a good FAQ on WDDX can be found here:

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