You have to look at the headers

Exactly...submit the form and the HEADER version of the string returns  "a:0:{}"

But, a print() of the same string variable correctly returns 
"a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}"

Dig deeper into it :) I had to use the Developer tools plugin in Firefox to get the 
HTTP Headers that were returned :)

Compare those two, and boggle the mind ;)

Thanks!

Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: John Holmes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 8:12 AM
To: Peters, Eric; Daniel Schierbeck; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Curt Zirzow
Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a bug?

Exactly what part of this is confusing you?

When you first request the page, $_POST is empty, so you end up with a serialized 
value of "a:0:{}" which has a length of 6.

When you submit the form, you end up with a serialized value of:

a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}

which has a length of 26. Maybe I missed something in this thread, but what's the 
issue here?

---John Holmes...
PS: Sorry for the top post but OE didn't include the > characters in the reply below 
for some reason and I'm too lazy to add them myself. :)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peters, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Daniel Schierbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 
"Curt Zirzow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a 
bug?


Check this out:

bash-2.05$ cat test.php
<?php

        function jpcache_debug2($s2)
        {
                $length = strlen($s2);
                $length++;
                $headers = "X-CacheDebug-five: $length";
                header($headers);
                print $length . "\n";
                print strlen($s2);
        }

        $myVariable = serialize($_POST);
        jpcache_debug2($myVariable);

?>

<html>
<body>

<form method="POST" action="test.php" enc-type="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar">
<input type="submit" value="blah">
</form>
</body>
</html>

bash-2.05$


Response:

Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:35:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6k PHP/4.3.3 
mod_perl/1.26 mod_fastcgi/2.2.10
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3
X-CacheDebug-five: 7
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

27
26
<html>
<body>

<form method="POST" action="test.php" enc-type="multipart/form-data">
<input type="hidden" name="foo" value="bar">
<input type="submit" value="blah">
</form>
</body>
</html>


How the bloody hell is $length being treated differently?

Thanks,

Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Schierbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 4:53 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PHP] Re: Crazy Serialize/Header/$_POST PHP Error - Is this a bug?

Eric Peters wrote:

> I think I've boiled my problem....for some reason I can't header() a
> serialized $_POST variable
>
> Running PHP 5.0 Final (and also tested with 4.3.3):
>
> -- begin file --
>
> <?php
>
> function jpcache_debug2($s)
> {
> header("X-CacheDebug-five: $s");
> print $s;
> }
>
> $myVariable = serialize($_POST);
> jpcache_debug2($myVariable);
>
> ?>
>
> <html>
> <body>
>
> <form method="POST" action="test-error.php"> <input type="hidden"
> name="foo" value="bar"> <input type="submit" value="blah"> </form>
> </body> </html>
>
>
> -- end file --
>
> Response Headers - Begin output:
>
> Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:56:14 GMT
> Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) PHP/5.0.0 mod_ssl/2.8.12
> OpenSSL/0.9.6b
> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.0
> X-CacheDebug-five: a:0:{}
> Connection: close
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked
> Content-Type: text/html
>
> a:1:{s:3:"foo";s:3:"bar";}
> <html>
> <body>
>
> <form method="POST" action="test-error.php"> <input type="hidden"
> name="foo" value="bar"> <input type="submit" value="blah"> </form>
> </body> </html>
>
>
> Anyone know why my header() output behaves so funky?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric

Try to use unserialize();

-- 
Daniel Schierbeck

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