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phpserialization
DCHP
DCHP

Reputation: 1131

unserialize array

I am return a serialize array from a post meta field in wordpress called groups.

here is how it looks in to post meta field.

a:2:{i:0;s:1:"1";i:1;s:1:"2";}

how can i loop trough this and run an if statement i.e.

$mydata = unserialize($meta['groups']);

print_r($mydata);

The unserialzed isnt working for me the ouput i get from the print_r is below

a:2:{i:0;s:1:"1";i:1;s:1:"2";}

which is same as above.

Any help on working with serialized and unserialzed arrays never used before.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 17749

Answers (3)

J. Bruni
J. Bruni

Reputation: 20492

Here is what I obtained using command-line PHP:

php > $x = unserialize('a:2:{i:0;s:1:"1";i:1;s:1:"2";}');
php > print_r($x);
Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
)

It seems that $meta['groups'] does not contain the serialized string.

Upvotes: 0

kba
kba

Reputation: 19466

print_r(unserialize('a:2:{i:0;s:1:"1";i:1;s:1:"2";}'));

will print

Array
(
    [0] => 1
    [1] => 2
)

The unserialization works just fine. How do you know if $meta['groups'] contains what you want?

Upvotes: 0

TimWolla
TimWolla

Reputation: 32691

Propably magic_quotes is active. Strip the slashes generated by it with stripslashes:

$mydata = unserialize(stripslashes($meta['groups']));

If you want to strip slashes from the whole GPC-Array use this (Credits go to this comment on PHP.net):

if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
      $strip_slashes_deep = function ($value) use (&$strip_slashes_deep) {
          return is_array($value) ? array_map($strip_slashes_deep, $value) : stripslashes($value);
      };
      $_GET = array_map($strip_slashes_deep, $_GET);
      $_POST = array_map($strip_slashes_deep, $_POST);
      $_COOKIE = array_map($strip_slashes_deep, $_COOKIE);
  }

Upvotes: 1

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