Msgpack for PHP

This extension provide API for communicating with MessagePack serialization.

MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small.

Requirement

PHP 5.0 +

Install

Install from PECL

Msgpack is an PECL extension, thus you can simply install it by:

pecl install msgpack

Compile Msgpack from source

$/path/to/phpize
$./configure 
$make && make install

Example

<?php
$data = array(0=>1,1=>2,2=>3);
$msg = msgpack_pack($data);
$data = msgpack_unpack($msg);
?>

Resources

msgpack