A BERT (Binary ERlang Term) serialization library for PHP based on Tom Preston-Werner's Ruby implementation.
It can encode PHP objects into BERT format and decode BERT binaries into PHP objects.
See the BERT specification at bert-rpc.org.
To designate an atom, use the Bert::a() helper or the Bert_Atom class. To designate tuples, use the Bert::t() helper or the Bert_Tuple class:
Bert::t(Bert::a('foo'), array(1, 2, 3))
new Bert_Tuple(array(new Bert_Atom('foo'), array(1, 2, 3)))
These will both be converted to (in Erlang syntax):
{foo, [1, 2, 3]}
require_once 'classes/Bert.php'
$bert = Bert::encode(
Bert::t(
Bert::a('user'),
array('name' => 'TPW', 'nick' => 'mojombo')
)
);
# => string(82) "#hduserhdbertddictllmnamemTPWjlmnickmmojombojj"
Bert::decode($bert);
# => Bert_Tuple (
Bert_Atom ( 'user' ),
Array (
'name' => 'TPW',
'nick' => 'mojombo'
)
)
To run the test suite:
$ ./runtests.php
runtests.php
OK
Test cases run: 2/2, Passes: 21, Failures: 0, Exceptions: 0