note 19054 added to function.unserialize

Here you go, free to the world. My contribution to help deal with serialized data that contains backslashes. Add these two functions to your code: function bs_shuffle(&$in) { // The Backslash Shuffle, as I like to call it. preg_replace('/\\/', '#BS#', &$in); } function bs_unshuffle(&$in) { // ...and the corresponding Unshuffle. preg_replace('/#BS#/', '\\', &$in); } Now, your variables will have *no* backslashes in them when you serialize them. Run bs_shuffle(&$var) (don't forget the "&"), then serialize($var)... when you retrieve it later, you can bs_unshuffle(&$var) and it's back to its backslashed self. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+19054 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+19054 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+19054