Missing pack and unpack functions for manipulating binary data

[danog]

The pack and unpack functions for manipulating binary data are missing: they are extremely useful for a number of reasons, please consider implementing them.

[dim-s]

These functions are quite difficult to implement, because they have an intricate format for passing parameters, but they can still be implemented. It's necessary to spend a lot of time on this. It's sad that this functionality in PHP has such an ugly and confusing API compared to other languages.

[danog]

I have worked a lot with this function, I assume I can help out with that

[dim-s]

It would be cool. I can advise using the DataInputStream and DataOutputStream classes (https://www.boraji.com/java-datainputstream-and-dataoutputstream-example).

[dim-s]

You will also need binary strings, for this use the BinaryMemory class.