A recursive normalizer that uses symfony/property-info to deduce data types of elements in an object graph.

A type hinted normalizer that retains type information about the object graph being normalized.

A collection of (symfony compliant) encoders for the following formats:

• Bencode as a pure PHP implementation provided by rych/bencode.
• BSON as a PHP extension provided by the mongo extension.
• CBOR as a pure PHP implementation provided by 2tvenom/cborencode.
• Export as a PHP core functionality.
• Form as a PHP core functionality.
• IGBinary as a PHP extension provided by the igbinary extension -- as a drop-in replacement for PHP Serialize.
• Ini PHP implementation provided by zendframework/zend-config.
• MsgPack as a PHP extension provided by the msgpack extension.
• Rison as a pure PHP implementation provided by deceze/Kunststube-Rison.
• //Sereal as a pure PHP implementation provided by tobyink/sereal.
• Serialize as a PHP core functionality.
• //Smile as a PHP extension provided by the libsmile extension.
• Tnetstring as a pure PHP implementation provided by phuedx/tnetstring.
• UBJSON as a pure PHP implementation provided by dizews/php-ubjson.
• YAML as a PHP extension provided by the yaml extension or a pure PHP implementation provided by symfony/yaml.

Choose one ore more encoding formats from the suggestions in composer.json. If the chosen format is described below as PHP extension you will have to install said extension. If it is a pure PHP implementation you will be able to require it via composer.

composer require mihai-stancu/serializer
composer require your-chosen/encoder-package

// in AppKernel::registerBundles()
$bundles = array(
    // ...
    new MS\SerializerBundle\MSSerializerBundle(),
    // ...
);

After having installed the bundle and at least one of the suggested encoding formats, that encoding format will be registered as a serialization format for the symfony/serializer.

$encoderName = array_rand(
    array(
        'bencode', 
        'bson', 
        'cbor',
        'export',
        'form',
        'igbinary',
        'ini',
        'msgpack',
        'rison',
        //'sereal',
        'serial',
        //'smile',
        'tnetstring',
        'ubjson',
        'yaml',
    )
);

$serializer = $container->get('serializer');
$string = $serializer->serialize($data, $encoderName);
$data = $serializer->unserialize($data, $class, $encoderName);