Question

i’m just new in php , curl i wrote a small mediawiki extension that send the recent change . the problem is when is send this data i try to write it in a file but “1” is only what appear i tried to use var_dump but no changes my sender code is :

$wgHooks['RecentChange_save'][] = 'sendto';
function sendto($recentChange){
    $serialized_data=serialize($recentChange);
    $con=curl_init();
    curl_setopt( $con, CURLOPT_HEADER, true );
    curl_setopt($con,CURLOPT_URL,"http://localhost/test.php");
    curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POST,true);
    curl_setopt($con,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,"data={$serialized_data}");
    $result=curl_exec($con);
    if($result){
        return true ;
    }   
    else 
     return false ;
    curl_close($con);
}

and the another code is (which recive):

 $a = unserialize($_POST['data']);
 $d=fopen("log.txt","w");
 fwrite($d,print_r($a));//only "1" is written
 fclose($d);

i think it’s a silly question but i get stuck and need help .

thank you

Answer 1

Instead of

fwrite($d,print_r($a));

try

fwrite($d,print_r($a, true));

By passing true as the second argument you instruct print_r to capture (i.e. return) the output instead of printing it.

Alternatively, you could use var_export($a, true) instead of print_r() (for a different representation; I only mention it because you were trying to use var_dump() initially).