php-redis - Is there a way to store PHP object in Redis without serializing it?

Question

I am trying to store user\' request URL as the key and a PHP object corresponding to that key as the value in Redis. I tried the following:

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Answer 1

As you can see in Redis data types, Redis only supports these 5 data types:

• String
• List
• Set
• Hash
• Sorted Set

So, there is no object data-type and therefor you are not able to store an object directly as a value. You have to serialize it first (or JSON-encode it with the json_encode function for example).

Is there any problem with serializing that you insist on storing your objects directly?

Update: According to what you said in the comments, you can use the approach indicated in this answer

So you can use:

$xml = $simpleXmlElem->asXML();

before serialization, and then after unserialize(), use the following code:

$simpleXmlElem = simplexml_load_string($xml);

In this way, you don't have to serialize a PHP built-in object like SimpleXmlElement directly and there will be no problems.