Guys, I consider this a serious Thread hijack :-D . If your topic weren't quite interesting, I would use those weapons of mass destruction right back at you and promote you to Head of Finance Dept. at General Motors :-P .

So, forget my comment about boost serialization being a de-facto standard and so on. Do I have to interprete your hijack as a signal that you do not have any propositions on interpreting a serialized xml file in PHP?

you could provide a php extension, which exposes the data to php. That way you probably can achieve a interface which is based on your logical classes, instead of messing with xml. regards Jens Weller -- GMX FreeDSL Komplettanschluss mit DSL 6.000 Flatrate und Telefonanschluss für nur 17,95 Euro/mtl.!* http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl02

I never addressed this because I really don't know how. If you want to create a different format - you can create your own archive type. I don't know what PHP classes look like. I doubt that the library could support ANY exterior format, but it does manage to create xml compatible files. However, once one raises the issue of EDITING an archive, there's a whole other kettle of fish to deal with. Achive schema reflects the C++ class structure which generates them. That's why it's totally automatic. Any editor which changed archive schema would make the archive unreadable. It's concievable that some editing might be possible, changing values for example, but in general, the ability to edit files is going to be limited by the requirement that the archive schema not change. It's very common for users to conclude that xml serialization means that one could load any general xml file. But if you think about it, it can't be done. Serialization generates the archive schema structure from the C++. An xml parser, generates a C++ data from any xml schema. A man can't server two mistresses. In our case, our C++ code is in charge. Robert Ramey

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Currently, I'm using boost serialization for some of my configuration files (XML format). Some time ago, it became necessary to edit these files using a web interface in PHP. As I could not think of a suitable method to deserialize such an XML file to PHP (with all object references, etc.), I wrote a C++ program generating HTML code, allowing some simple configuration tasks. Even though this worked as a quick and dirty solution, I do not intend to support such a proprietary workaround for too long. Much more comfortable would it be to deserialize the XML file to PHP classes or, with JSP or ASP.NET websites, Java and C# classes. Does anyone of you know of such libraries for crossing the website/C++ line? Or should I use another serialization library? Currently, I consider the boost serialization a de-facto standard for C++ serialization issues. Thanks for any reply and best regards Pascal Kesseli

Guys, I consider this a serious Thread hijack :-D . If your topic weren't quite interesting, I would use those weapons of mass destruction right back at you and promote you to Head of Finance Dept. at General Motors :-P .

So, forget my comment about boost serialization being a de-facto standard and so on. Do I have to interprete your hijack as a signal that you do not have any propositions on interpreting a serialized xml file in PHP?

Thx & greeetz Pascal