From: Operating system: All PHP version: 5.3.10 Package: *Data Exchange functions Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:Unserialize should handle incorrect or missing string-length
Description: ------------ A serializing string "foo" produces an intuitive result 's:3:"foo"' and unserialize() properly decodes that back. It would be useful, however, if the unserialize function could handle (even if less efficiently) cases, where the string-length is missing or even specified incorrectly. Currently any such mismatches result in empty output from the function, even though `s:"foo"' or `s::"foo"' or even `s:4:"foo"' is no harder to understand. The feature would be of help to those of us, who need to a massive search/replace in the dump of serialized objects. Test script: --------------- <? $s1 = "s:7:\"1234567\""; $s2 = "s:6:\"1234567\""; $s3 = "s:8:\"1234567\""; $s4 = "s::\"1234567\""; print "S1: >" . unserialize($s1) . "<\n"; print "S2: >" . unserialize($s2) . "<\n"; print "S3: >" . unserialize($s3) . "<\n"; print "S4: >" . unserialize($s4) . "<\n"; ?> Expected result: ---------------- S1: >1234567< S2: >1234567< S3: >1234567< S4: >1234567< Actual result: -------------- S1: >1234567< S2: >< S3: >< S4: >< -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61255&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=61255&r=mysqlcfg
