Question

I have a serialized array that looks like

$dec=”Acetic Acid[1]=root&Ammonia[2]=root&Ammonium nitrate[3]=2&111[4]=root&Alcohol[5]=root&Bio plastic[6]=root&Black Powder[7]=root&Borax[8]=root&Bow[9]=root&Calcium Carbonate[10]=root&Calcium Hydroxide[11]=root&Anesthetic[12]=root&Calcium oxide[13]=root&Carbon Dioxide[14]=root&Carbon Nanotubes[15]=root&Casein[16]=root&Cellulose acetate[17]=root&Wood Gas[18]=root&pH [19]=root”

and when i try
$arr = unserialize($dec);

I get error
unserialize(): Error at offset 0 of 373 bytes

Any idea why ?

Answer 1

Because it’s not a valid serialized string, it looks like a query-string to me.

parse_str($dec,$arr);
print_r($arr);