Safe (un)serialization/marshalling

Serialize to ASCII.

function safe_serialize($whatever) {
	return base64_encode(gzdeflate(serialize($whatever)));
	}
	
function safe_unserialize($whatever) {
	return unserialize(gzinflate(base64_decode($whatever)));
	}

Usage

Uses PHP serialize, so input is as per serialize ($mixed).

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