note 93649 modified in function.unserialize by danbrown

I've been having horrendous problems getting my saved to mysql serialized data to unserialize. All I got back was false. However, one handy tip saved the day. <?php //to safely serialize $safe_string_to_store = base64_encode(serialize($multidimensional_array)); //to unserialize... $array_restored_from_db = unserialize(base64_decode($encoded_serialized_string)); ?> --was-- I've been having horrendous problems getting my saved to mysql serialized data to unserialize. All I got back was false. However, one handy tip saved the day. //to safely serialize $safe_string_to_store = base64_encode(serialize($multidimensional_array)); //to unserialize... $array_restored_from_db = unserialize(base64_decode($encoded_serialized_string)); http://davidwalsh.name/php-serialize-unserialize-issues http://php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php