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Serialization

By aaronfalloon | Published: January 24, 2010
Again, whilst working my way through Practical symfony, I came across a word which I didn’t understand – serialization. And again, I’ve learnt something new today. Serialization (or serialisation in the UK) is the process of converting a data structure or object into a sequence of bits so that it can be stored or transmitted.
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To slugify?

By aaronfalloon | Published: January 24, 2010
I’m currently working my way through Practical symfony and I’m on day 5. It’s talking about the need to “slugify” column names before they can be used in URLs. However, what does “slugifying” a string actually do? Well, it replaces non-ASCII characters with ASCII characters. You learn something new everyday.
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