# Serializing?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serializing/297906>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 9, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serializing/297906 "2009-10-09T23:54:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alpha\_Remex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Alpha\_Remex](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alpha_Remex)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/serializing/297906/1 "2009-10-09T23:54:59Z")

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I read today that serializing is the best way to save and restore data… I guess this would take place of writing to an XML file using PHP?

Can someone please explain to me what serializing is and how it works with AS#??? All the stuff that I’m finding is over my head…