note 19127 deleted from function.unserialize by sniper

Note Submitter: phee_hates_spam@isthisthingon.org ---- 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: bs_shuffle(&$variable); function bs_shuffle($in) { $in=preg_replace('/\\/', '#BS#', $in); } function bs_unshuffle($in) { $in=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.