what to do when unserialize fails

Using PHP’s serialize function to serialize and array or object where some element is a string with UTF8 data creates the serialized string properly. However, unserialize function fails to unpack that data.

The solution I find to work (not sure if it’s perfect though) is to use mb_unserialize function (found in comments of PHP manual).

function mb_unserialize($serial_str) { 
    $out = preg_replace('!s:(\d+):"(.*?)";!se',   
    "'s:'.strlen('$2').':\"$2\";'", $serial_str ); 
    return @unserialize($out); 
}

Works as advertised if your database is not UTF-8, which should be the case.

Source: backwardcompatible.net

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  1. yatil posted this