I have completed a first draft of serialization functionality which is
intended to be an updated to amfext. It's on github[0] if anyone is
interested. I would now like to write all the unserialization routines and
would like some suggestions from experienced php devs. I've been reading
Sara Golemon's book, but am still a little unsure.
In particular, I want my userland function, amf_decode to accept as a
parameter a string (and possibly other args). This is not so difficult but
I must call upon another function, php_amf_decode, which needs to be able
to handle recursive calls.
Something like this:
// userland function
static PHP_FUNCTION(amf_decode) {
char *buf; // char buffer, contains serialize data string
int buf_len, buf_cursor=0; // the length of the buffer
long flags = 0;
if (zend_parse_parameters(ZEND_NUM_ARGS() TSRMLS_CC, "s|l", &buf,
&buf_len, &flags) == FAILURE) {
return;
}
if (!buf_len) {
RETURN_NULL();
}
php_amf_decode(return_value, buf, buf_len, &buf_cursor, flags
TSRMLS_CC);
}
// proposed recursive decoding function
PHP_AMF_API void php_amf_decode(zval *return_value, char *buf, int buf_len,
int *buf_cursor, long flags TSRMLS_DC)
{
// is it safe to use these macros in this recursive function?
RETVAL_BOOL(1);
// or this
RETURN_LONG(42);
}
[0] https://github.com/sneakyimp/amfext
