serialize($obj) is different from serialize((string)$obj); The reason I mentioned this is that serialize($obj) is currently meaningless for COM objects, so people are using serialize((string)$obj) to get a string representation.
--Wez. > Just a moment here. You imply that serialize() would use the same > conversion to string that print, etc.? But that's obviously wrong - no > object of PHP does this. Serialized object is one and string > representation is something very different. -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
