RE: [PHP-WIN] serialize and unserialize

Ignorant question: You are doing unserialize() twice on the same entity. Are you allowed to do that? -----Original Message----- From: webmaster@multiwebmastertools.com To: php-windows@lists.php.net Sent: 2003-12-21 21:37 Subject: [PHP-WIN] serialize and unserialize Hello all i need a little help with serialize and unserialize here is my code <?php session_start(); if(!isset($_COOKIE['data'])) { //Check to see if cookie is there. include("cookie_num.dat"); $y = "$password"; //Assign a special number for each cookie. $data = array('x' => 'cart', 'y' => $password); session_register("y"); $var = serialize($data); //$chksum = md5($data . md5('secret salt here')); //$var = serialize(array($data,$chksum)); setcookie('data', $var, time() + 3600); } else { $var = unserialize($_COOKIE['data']); <--- list($data, $chksum) = $var; if (md5($data . md5('secret salt here')) == $chksum) { // Data is valid $data = unserialize($_COOKIE['data']); <--- list($y, $chksum) = $data; $x = $data['x']; $y = $data['y']; session_register("y"); } //session_register("y"); } ?> the problem is when i try to pull it back out to use the number that is generated by $password it gives me this error Notice: unserialize(): Error at offset 9 of 118 bytes in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\header.php on line 24 any ideas towards fixin this would be appreciated