Bug #55011 [Opn->Bgs]: serialize a private attribute give it a bad length string

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55011&edit=1 ID: 55011 Updated by: scottmac@php.net Reported by: nicolas dot giraud at maileva dot com Summary: serialize a private attribute give it a bad length string -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Class/Object related Operating System: Windows XP SP3 PHP Version: 5.2.17 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: The null bytes aren't shown by your browser, but they are there. You can unserialize() this value still and everything works. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-06-08 18:35:57] nicolas dot giraud at maileva dot com Description: ------------ When you serialize an object with private or protected members, their length names are baddly calculated (maybe because of "These prepended values [which] have null bytes on either side" like the documentation says. Anyway, this is a problem when you want to write your serialisation into a file and analyse it next. Note that I'm not using PHP 5.2.17 but 5.2.3. But I haven't read a fix of this problem between both version. Test script: --------------- Here is an example: class Ab { private $_i = 0; public function __construct() { $this->_i = 1; } }; $oAB = new Ab(); $str = serialize($oAB); echo $str; Expected result: ---------------- O:2:"Ab":1:{s:4:"Ab_i";i:1;} Actual result: -------------- O:2:"Ab":1:{s:6:"Ab_i";i:1;} Note the "s:6" instead of "s:4": this is why the unserialization from this string is impossible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55011&edit=1