note 59021 added to function.wddx-deserialize

On migrating wddx_deserialize() from PHP 4.x to PHP 5.1 (5.1.0RC6): While $buffer = wddx_serialize_vars($some_array); $some_array = wddx_deserialize($buffer); worked fine with PHP 4.x, the deserialization failed with PHP 5.1. In the above example $some_array will just be an empty string under 5.1 While wddx_serialize_vars() seems to behave identical in 4.x and 5.1, wddx_deserialize() does NOT. Prepending XML encoding information to the buffer turned out to be at least a workaround. So, the following works with PHP 5.1: $buffer = wddx_serialize_vars($some_array); $buffer = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>'. $buffer; $some_array = wddx_deserialize($buffer); NB: It may well be, that the behavioural difference between 4.x and 5.1 described above can only be observed if the array contains certain characters, i.e. german Umlaute (äöüÄÖÜ). So this workaround may not be necessary in each and every case. ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.wddx-deserialize.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+59021 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59021&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59021&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59021&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59021&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: non-english -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59021&report=yes&reason=non-english Delete: already in docs -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59021&report=yes&reason=already+in+docs Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+59021&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+59021&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php