Question

How come unserialize isn’t restoring my array? See code below..

// prints a:1:{s:8:'txn_type';s:32:'recurring_payment_profile_cancel';} echo $item['response'];   // prints nothing print_r(unserialize($item['response'])); 

I understand why the print_r($response) gives me nothing

** edit – I noticed this

Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 6 of 2797 bytes in /home/reitinve/public_html/action/doc.php on line 13

What does that mean?

Answer 1

Is it possible $item['response'] contains some whitespace before or after it?

Check strlen($item['response']) gives you 61.

Edit: It seems to work with whitespace at the end, but whitespace at the start will make it fail to unserialize.

Edit: that error message means either you have a LOT of whitespace (almost 2kb of it), or $item['response'] is being changed between the echo and the unserialize