function phpSerialize (mixedValue) {
    // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
    // +   original by: Arpad Ray (mailto:arpad@php.net)
    // +   improved by: Dino
    // +   bugfixed by: Andrej Pavlovic
    // +   bugfixed by: Garagoth
    // +      input by: DtTvB (http://dt.in.th/2008-09-16.string-length-in-bytes.html)
    // +   bugfixed by: Russell Walker (http://www.nbill.co.uk/)
    // +   bugfixed by: Jamie Beck (http://www.terabit.ca/)
    // +      input by: Martin (http://www.erlenwiese.de/)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/)
    // +   improved by: Le Torbi (http://www.letorbi.de/)
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/)
    // -    depends on: utf8_encode
    // %          note: We feel the main purpose of this function should be to ease the transport of data between php & js
    // %          note: Aiming for PHP-compatibility, we have to translate objects to arrays
    // *     example 1: serialize(['Kevin', 'van', 'Zonneveld']);
    // *     returns 1: 'a:3:{i:0;s:5:"Kevin";i:1;s:3:"van";i:2;s:9:"Zonneveld";}'
    // *     example 2: serialize({firstName: 'Kevin', midName: 'van', surName: 'Zonneveld'});
    // *     returns 2: 'a:3:{s:9:"firstName";s:5:"Kevin";s:7:"midName";s:3:"van";s:7:"surName";s:9:"Zonneveld";}'

    var _utf8Size = function (str) {
        var size = 0, i = 0, l = str.length, code = '';
        for (i = 0; i < l; i++) {
            code = str[i].charCodeAt(0);
            if (code < 0x0080) {
                size += 1;
            } else if (code < 0x0800) {
                size += 2;
            } else {
                size += 3;
            }
        }
        return size;
    };
    
    var _getType = function (inp) {
        var type = typeof inp, match;
        var key;

        if (type === 'object' && !inp) {
            return 'null';
        }
        if (type === "object") {
            if (!inp.constructor) {
                return 'object';
            }
            var cons = inp.constructor.toString();
            match = cons.match(/(\w+)\(/);
            if (match) {
                cons = match[1].toLowerCase();
            }
            var types = ["boolean", "number", "string", "array"];
            for (key in types) {
                if (cons == types[key]) {
                    type = types[key];
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return type;
    };

    var type = _getType(mixedValue);
    var val, keyType = '';

    switch (type) {
        case "function":
            val = "";
            break;
        case "boolean":
            val = "b:" + (mixedValue ? "1" : "0");
            break;
        case "number":
            val = (Math.round(mixedValue) == mixedValue ? "i" : "d") + ":" + mixedValue;
            break;
        case "string":
            val = "s:" + _utf8Size(mixedValue) + ":\"" + mixedValue + "\"";
            break;
        case "array":
        case "object":
            val = "a";
            /*
            if (type == "object") {
                var objname = mixed_value.constructor.toString().match(/(\w+)\(\)/);
                if (objname == undefined) {
                    return;
                }
                objname[1] = this.serialize(objname[1]);
                val = "O" + objname[1].substring(1, objname[1].length - 1);
            }
            */
            var count = 0;
            var vals = "";
            var objectKey;
            var key;
            for (key in mixedValue) {
                if (mixedValue.hasOwnProperty(key)) {
                    keyType = _getType(mixedValue[key]);
                    if (keyType === "function") {
                        continue;
                    }

                    objectKey = (key.match(/^[0-9]+$/) ? parseInt(key, 10) : key);
                    vals += this.phpSerialize(objectKey) +
                    this.phpSerialize(mixedValue[key]);
                    count++;
                }
            }
            val += ":" + count + ":{" + vals + "}";
            break;
        case "undefined": // Fall-through
        default: // if the JS object has a property which contains a null value, the string cannot be unserialized by PHP
            val = "N";
            break;
    }
    if (type !== "object" && type !== "array") {
        val += ";";
    }
    return val;
}

function phpUrlencode (str) {
    // http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net
    // +   original by: Philip Peterson
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +      input by: AJ
    // +   improved by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +      input by: travc
    // +      input by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Kevin van Zonneveld (http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net)
    // +   improved by: Lars Fischer
    // +      input by: Ratheous
    // +      reimplemented by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // +   bugfixed by: Joris
    // +      reimplemented by: Brett Zamir (http://brett-zamir.me)
    // %          note 1: This reflects PHP 5.3/6.0+ behavior
    // %        note 2: Please be aware that this function expects to encode into UTF-8 encoded strings, as found on
    // %        note 2: pages served as UTF-8
    // *     example 1: urlencode('Kevin van Zonneveld!');
    // *     returns 1: 'Kevin+van+Zonneveld%21'
    // *     example 2: urlencode('http://kevin.vanzonneveld.net/');
    // *     returns 2: 'http%3A%2F%2Fkevin.vanzonneveld.net%2F'
    // *     example 3: urlencode('http://www.google.nl/search?q=php.js&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a');
    // *     returns 3: 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.nl%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dphp.js%26ie%3Dutf-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26aq%3Dt%26rls%3Dcom.ubuntu%3Aen-US%3Aunofficial%26client%3Dfirefox-a'

    str = (str+'').toString();

    // Tilde should be allowed unescaped in future versions of PHP (as reflected below), but if you want to reflect current
    // PHP behavior, you would need to add ".replace(/~/g, '%7E');" to the following.
    return encodeURIComponent(str)
            .replace(/!/g, '%21')
            .replace(/'/g, '%27')
            .replace(/\(/g, '%28')
            .replace(/\)/g, '%29')
            .replace(/\*/g, '%2A')
            .replace(/%20/g, '+');
}