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Posting Serialized Data Not Working

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:29 pm
by civil777
I am trying to send an object from one PHP file to another using POST. I serialize the object and then add slashes. For some reason, only part of the data is getting through. It appears to be a problem with the slashes. Here is the HTML that is generate in the sending PHP file:

<select name="match3"><option value="O:19:\"teacher_student_match\":3:{s:7:\"sess_id\";s:2:\"67\";s:7:\"stud_id\";s:2:\"10\";s:6:\"tut_id\";N;}">Rodriguez, Jorge</option></select>

In the receiving file, I get the following for $_POST['match3']:

O:19:\\

So I am not getting the full string that I am trying to send.

Anyone know what might be going wrong?

Re: Posting Serialized Data Not Working

Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 9:15 pm
by requinix
Don't use addslashes to put the serialized data into the <option> - use htmlentities. Then make sure you have magic_quotes (a PHP setting) turned off.

Re: Posting Serialized Data Not Working

Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:15 am
by civil777
Nice! It worked. Thanks.