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+<?php
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ * @package log4php
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Layout which formats the events using PHP's serialize() function.
+ *
+ * Available options:
+ * - locationInfo - If set to true, the event's location information will also
+ *                  be serialized (slow, defaults to false).
+ *
+ * @version $Revision: 1334369 $
+ * @package log4php
+ * @subpackage layouts
+ * @since 2.2
+ */
+class LoggerLayoutSerialized extends LoggerLayout {
+
+    /** Whether to include the event's location information (slow). */
+    protected $locationInfo = false;
+
+    /** Sets the location information flag. */
+    public function setLocationInfo($value) {
+        $this->setBoolean('locationInfo', $value);
+    }
+
+    /** Returns the location information flag. */
+    public function getLocationInfo() {
+        return $this->locationInfo;
+    }
+
+    public function format(LoggerLoggingEvent $event) {
+        // If required, initialize the location data
+        if ($this->locationInfo) {
+            $event->getLocationInformation();
+        }
+        return serialize($event) . PHP_EOL;
+    }
+}