andreekeberg / serialized-search-replace

Search and replace serialized strings, and update all string lengths

Serialized Search and Replace

Easily replace strings found in content containing data serialized by the serialize function without corrupting your data, by correcting all length values included in these objects before returning the replaced content.

Requirements

• PHP 4.0.0 or higher

Installation

composer require andreekeberg/serialized-search-replace

Usage

Basic usage

$output = SerializedSearchReplace::replace(
    'http://example.com',
    'https://example.com',
    serialize([
        'url' => 'http://example.com/'
    ])
);

Returns:

a:1:{s:3:"url";s:20:"https://example.com/";}

Getting the number of replacements performed

Passing $count by reference to get the total number of replacements performed:

$output = SerializedSearchReplace::replace(
    'http://example.com',
    'https://example.com',
    serialize([
        'url' => 'http://example.com/'
    ]),
    $count
);

Value of $count:

1

Documentation

• SerializedSearchReplace

Contributing

Read the contribution guidelines.

Changelog

Refer to the changelog for a full history of the project.

License

Serialized Search and Replace is licensed under the MIT license.