Re: PHP 4.0 Bug #2313: PHP4 unserializes a PHP3 serialized object as a boolean

Manuel Lemos wrote: > > Hello Sascha, > > On 16-Sep-99 05:40:02, you wrote: > > >On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 12:15:29AM -0000, mlemos@acm.org wrote: > >> From: mlemos@acm.org > >> Operating system: LinuX RH 5.2 > >> PHP version: 4.0 Latest CVS (15/09/1999) > >> PHP Bug Type: Misbehaving function > >> Bug description: PHP4 unserializes a PHP3 serialized object as a boolean > >> > >> Try this example to see the problem. > > > The format is not written in stone and is subject to change. > > But isn't PHP4 going to be able to unserialize PHP3 serialized objects? it does now (fixed in CVS). but PHP3 will *NOT* deserialize PHP4 objects! (and probably will never;-) tc > > It's not my case, but I'm afraid that there is already many people storing > PHP3 serialized data in databases. If PHP4 is not able to unserialize data > serialized by PHP3, people's applications will break in PHP 4 and they > might not want to move to PHP 4 because of that. > > I noticed this problem because I am using serialization to cache data > structures built by parsing XML data. There seems to remain some problem > with PHP4's XML parser code, so the parser trashes my data structures. > > I could not reproduce this behaviour with a simple script. That's why I > haven't filled a report for this XML problem. Maybe someone else will > figure it soon or later. > > So, I just ran PHP3 to parse and cache > > > If you need something more portable, use WDDX. > > ok. > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > Web Programming Components using PHP Classes. > Look at: http://phpclasses.UpperDesign.com/?user=mlemos@acm.org > -- > E-mail: mlemos@acm.org > URL: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ > PGP key: http://www.mlemos.e-na.net/ManuelLemos.pgp > -- > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Thies C. Arntzen "One Big-Mac, Small Fries and a Coke!" Digital Collections Phone +49 40 235350 Fax +49 40 23535180 Hammerbrookstr. 93 20097 Hamburg / Germany