Question

I am trying to save JSON data into a MySQL DB & PHP. I’ve used

// This is the JSON (from Twitter).
$result = 
Array
(
    [created_at] => Wed, 01 Feb 2012 03:53:25 +0000
    [entities] => Array
        (
            [hashtags] => Array
                (
                    [0] => Array
                        (
                            [text] => somehashtag
                            [indices] => Array
                                (
                                    [0] => 85
                                    [1] => 98
                                )

                        )

                )

$stringForDB = mysql_real_escape_string(serialize($result));

to serialize.

I can’t unserialize it.

I’ve tried

$obj=unserialize($stringForDB);

but the $obj is blank.

Answer 1

mysql_real_escape_string will prepend backslashes to ‘ and ” thus making it impossible to unserialize.

$serializedResult = serialize($result);

// $stringForDB can not be unserialized since it has extra backslashes
$stringForDB = mysql_real_escape_string($serializedResult));

// Some code to insert $stringForDB into the database

$obj=unserialize($serializedResult);