Can't unserialize array from mysql

Hi, I'm trying to loop thru an unserialized array pulled from mysql. First I serialized the array before storing it: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $sql ="UPDATE $table_name set performer_id='" . addslashes(serialize($perfor mer_id)) . "' WHERE lineup_id=$lineup_id"; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This seems to work. mysql stores $performer_id as: a:3:{i:0;s:2:"12";i:1;s:1:"1";i:2;s:1:"3";} The next time I grab $performer_id from mysql I want to unserialize it and loop thru it with foreach(): ------------------------------------------------------------------------ $sql ="SELECT performer_id FROM lineup WHERE lineup_id=$lineup_id"; $result_pid = @mysql_query($sql, $connection) or die("Couldn't execute query perfomer ID."); while ($row = mysql_fetch_row($result_pid)) { $result_pid = unserialize($result_pid); foreach ($result_pid as $performer_id) { (some more code here) } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ But this gives me an error "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach()". I used var_dump before and after I unserialized just to check that the result set actually contained data. The first var_dump produced "array(1) { [0]=> string(44) "a:3:{i:0;s:2:"10";i:1;s:1:"6";i:2;s:2:"17";}" }". Looks good, but var_dump after unserializing gives "bool(false)". I also tried using reset() after the first var_dump, and stripslashes(), but got the same error. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks! Jim