Unserializing data doesn't work

Question

Been at this for the past 5 hours and I\'m stumped. Tried the most ridiculous functions to try and fix it but to no avail.

I\'m retrieving data from a WP database. The

Answer 1

You can unserialize twice:

$unserialized = unserialize( unserialize( $usermeta['facebookmeta'] ) );

NB: There's no need to serialize when using update_user_meta, it serializes automatically for you, cf. maybe_serialize: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/maybe_serialize

Answer 2

I had the same problem with wp_options where custom post types have serialize data. I've figure that maybe there was a charset issue, and in fact... ta da! Try this:

$unserialized = unserialize( utf8_encode($atest[0]['option_value'] ) );

Where $atest[0] is thearray from mysql. Hope this helps!

Aisfrond

Answer 3

Whoops found the answer! :) WP function hidden in functions.php from WP themselves.

function maybe_unserialize( $original ) {
    if ( is_serialized( $original ) ) // don't attempt to unserialize data that wasn't serialized going in
        return @unserialize( $original );
    return $original;
}

Fixed the unserializing by doing:

$unserialized = maybe_unserialize( unserialize( $usermeta['facebookmeta'] ));

Returns it all in a neat array! :)

Happy happy! :)