Re: Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a bug?

Exactly what part of this is confusing you? When you first request the page, $_POST is empty, so you end up with a serialized value of "a:0:{}" which has a length of 6. When you submit the form, you end up with a serialized value of: a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";} which has a length of 26. Maybe I missed something in this thread, but what's the issue here? ---John Holmes... PS: Sorry for the top post but OE didn't include the > characters in the reply below for some reason and I'm too lazy to add them myself. :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peters, Eric" <ericp@amazon.com> To: "Daniel Schierbeck" <dasch@ulmail.net>; <php-general@lists.php.net>; "Curt Zirzow" <php-general@zirzow.dyndns.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:38 AM Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a bug? Check this out: bash-2.05$ cat test.php <?php

       function jpcache_debug2($s2)
       {
               $length = strlen($s2);
               $length++;
               $headers = "X-CacheDebug-five: $length";
               header($headers);
               print $length . "\n";
               print strlen($s2);
       }

       $myVariable = serialize($_POST);
       jpcache_debug2($myVariable);

?> <html> <body> <form method="POST" action="test.php" enc-type="multipart/form-data"> <input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar"> <input type="submit" value="blah"> </form> </body> </html> bash-2.05$ Response: Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:35:55 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6k PHP/4.3.3 mod_perl/1.26 mod_fastcgi/2.2.10 X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3 X-CacheDebug-five: 7 Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html 27 26 <html> <body> <form method="POST" action="test.php" enc-type="multipart/form-data"> <input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar"> <input type="submit" value="blah"> </form> </body> </html> How the bloody hell is $length being treated differently? Thanks, Eric -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Schierbeck [mailto:dasch@ulmail.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:53 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a bug? Eric Peters wrote:

I think I've boiled my problem....for some reason I can't header() a serialized $_POST variable Running PHP 5.0 Final (and also tested with 4.3.3): -- begin file -- <?php function jpcache_debug2($s) { header("X-CacheDebug-five: $s"); print $s; } $myVariable = serialize($_POST); jpcache_debug2($myVariable); ?> <html> <body> <form method="POST" action="test-error.php"> <input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar"> <input type="submit" value="blah"> </form> </body> </html> -- end file -- Response Headers - Begin output: Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:56:14 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/5.0.0 mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.0 X-CacheDebug-five: a:0:{} Connection: close Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";} <html> <body> <form method="POST" action="test-error.php"> <input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar"> <input type="submit" value="blah"> </form> </body> </html> Anyone know why my header() output behaves so funky? Thanks, Eric

Try to use unserialize(); -- Daniel Schierbeck -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php