diff --git a/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Protocol/TBinaryProtocolAccelerated.php b/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Protocol/TBinaryProtocolAccelerated.php
index 392aa21..7a40ce9 100644
--- a/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Protocol/TBinaryProtocolAccelerated.php
+++ b/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Protocol/TBinaryProtocolAccelerated.php
@@ -33,6 +33,21 @@
   public function __construct($trans, $strictRead=false, $strictWrite=true) {
     // If the transport doesn't implement putBack, wrap it in a
     // TBufferedTransport (which does)
+    
+    // NOTE (t.heintz): This is very evil to do, because the TBufferedTransport may swallow bytes, which
+    // are then never written to the underlying transport. This happens precisely when a number of bytes
+    // less than the max buffer size (512 by default) is written to the transport and then flush() is NOT
+    // called. In that case the data stays in the writeBuffer of the transport, from where it can never be
+    // accessed again (for example through read()).
+    //
+    // Since the caller of this method does not know about the wrapping transport, this creates bugs which
+    // are very difficult to find. Hence the wrapping of a transport in a buffer should be left to the
+    // calling code. An interface could used to mandate the presence of the putBack() method in the transport.
+    //
+    // I am leaving this code in nonetheless, because there may be applications depending on this behavior.
+    //
+    // @see THRIFT-1579
+    
     if (!method_exists($trans, 'putBack')) {
       $trans = new TBufferedTransport($trans);
     }
@@ -44,4 +59,4 @@
   public function isStrictWrite() {
     return $this->strictWrite_;
   }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Serializer/TBinarySerializer.php b/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Serializer/TBinarySerializer.php
index 2a7cc3e..4e0af87 100644
--- a/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Serializer/TBinarySerializer.php
+++ b/lib/php/lib/Thrift/Serializer/TBinarySerializer.php
@@ -59,8 +59,14 @@
      $transport = new TMemoryBuffer();
      $protocol = new TBinaryProtocolAccelerated($transport);
      if (function_exists('thrift_protocol_read_binary')) {
+       // NOTE (t.heintz) TBinaryProtocolAccelerated internally wraps our TMemoryBuffer in a
+       // TBufferedTransport, so we have to retrieve it again or risk losing data when writing
+       // less than 512 bytes to the transport (see the comment there as well).
+       // @see THRIFT-1579
        $protocol->writeMessageBegin('', TMessageType::REPLY, 0);
-       $transport->write($string_object);
+       $protocolTransport = $protocol->getTransport();
+       $protocolTransport->write($string_object);
+       $protocolTransport->flush();
        return thrift_protocol_read_binary($protocol, $class_name,
                                           $protocol->isStrictRead());
      } else {
diff --git a/lib/php/test/Makefile.am b/lib/php/test/Makefile.am
index 2fd7f81..1292b81 100755
--- a/lib/php/test/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/php/test/Makefile.am
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 if HAVE_PHPUNIT
 check: stubs
 	$(PHPUNIT) --log-junit=phpunit.xml Test/Thrift/Protocol/TestTJSONProtocol.php
+	$(PHPUNIT) --log-junit=phpunit.xml Test/Thrift/Protocol/TestBinarySerializer.php
 endif
 
 clean-local:
diff --git a/lib/php/test/Test/Thrift/Protocol/TestBinarySerializer.php b/lib/php/test/Test/Thrift/Protocol/TestBinarySerializer.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..65feadd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/php/test/Test/Thrift/Protocol/TestBinarySerializer.php
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<?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 thrift.test
+ */
+
+namespace test\Thrift\Protocol;
+
+use Thrift\ClassLoader\ThriftClassLoader;
+use Thrift\Serializer\TBinarySerializer;
+
+require_once __DIR__.'/../../../../lib/Thrift/ClassLoader/ThriftClassLoader.php';
+
+$loader = new ThriftClassLoader();
+$loader->registerNamespace('Thrift', __DIR__ . '/../../../../lib');
+$loader->registerNamespace('Test', __DIR__ . '/../../..');
+$loader->registerDefinition('ThriftTest', __DIR__ . '/../../../packages');
+$loader->register();
+
+/***
+ * This test suite depends on running the compiler against the
+ * standard ThriftTest.thrift file:
+ *
+ * lib/php/test$ ../../../compiler/cpp/thrift --gen php -r \
+ *   --out ./packages ../../../test/ThriftTest.thrift
+ */
+
+class TestBinarySerializer extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
+{
+
+  public function setUp()
+  {
+  }
+
+  /**
+    * We try to serialize and deserialize a random object to make sure no exceptions are thrown.
+    * @see THRIFT-1579
+    */
+  public function testBinarySerializer()
+  {
+    $struct = new \ThriftTest\Xtruct(array('string_thing' => 'abc'));
+    $serialized = TBinarySerializer::serialize($struct, 'ThriftTest\\Xtruct');
+    $deserialized = TBinarySerializer::deserialize($serialized, 'ThriftTest\\Xtruct');
+    $this->assertEquals($struct, $deserialized);
+  }
+
+}
+