My problem is that I have a list of serialized objects in a database, and I want to display a list of the details of those object to the user through an admin page. They are PHP objects in a Laravel queue.
I don't want to unserialize() the data to restore the original objects, I just need to be able to "look in" at what is there.
One approach may be to convert each object in the serialized string to a stdClass and move the original class name to a property of that. There may be other ways to analyse the string and provide what it contains as nested arrays of data.
Are there any implementations of these, or other, approaches available? I've not found anything in my usual searches.
I'm going to answer my own question, much that it ruffles me.
I have written a quick package that does the parsing - just a couple of classes. It won't parse ALL serialized data that you can throw at it, but it works with everything I need it for just now.
Here it is, in case it is of any use:
https://github.com/academe/SerializeParser
There are a number of non-PHP packages around that do this parsing, and I just migrated some of the code from those to scratch an itch.