semi-dirty PHP trick?

[metawidget]

How ugly is this approach to making a copy of an array that moves only values, not references?

$copy_of_array = unserialize(serialize($multidimensional_array));

I feel a little dirty... assuming I'm not too worried about efficiency, should I?

Comments

Re: efficiency

[metawidget]

Heh... yeah, I guess I'm off the hook one making this project efficient.

I eventually found out that PHP 4 has easy cloning behaviour, but PHP 5 acts like ECMAScript, with its "composite types are always piles of references" thing. Ick. Maybe I should learn more C and write webpages in it or something.