note 19054 deleted from function.unserialize by john

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.