[SOLVED] Can I read a string similar to explode() ?

[pianoman993]

Hello there PHP experts! I am trying to use a string like this:

 

a:7:{s:10:"country_id";s:3:"226";s:5:"email";s:22:"email@wi.rr.com";s:10:"last_visit";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:7:"created";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:8:"modified";s:19:"0000-00-00 00:00:00";s:3:"URI";s:5:"/home";s:17:"FreakAuth_captcha";s:5:"sqqpi";}

 

And be able to "explode" the data so I can get each value. So for instance I could fetch the country_id value by typing string_array['country_id']. is this possible?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thank you!

 

- Pianoman993

[premiso]

This looks like a serialized array string. Why not simply unserialize it wham all data is back in an array.

[rhodesa]

i thought it was serialized too, but it wasn't...try this:

<?php
$code = 'a:7:{s:10:"country_id";s:3:"226";s:5:"email";s:22:"email@wi.rr.com";s:10:"last_visit";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:7:"created";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:8:"modified";s:19:"0000-00-00 00:00:00";s:3:"URI";s:5:"/home";s:17:"FreakAuth_captcha";s:5:"sqqpi";}';
$data = array();
preg_match_all('/s:\d+:"([^"]*)";s:\d+:"([^"]*)";/',$code,$matches);
foreach($matches[1] as $n => $key){
  $data[$key] = $matches[2][$n];
}
print $data['country_id'];
print_r($data);
?>

[rhodesa]

ah, it is serialized, but you removed the email address so when i unserialized it, it didn't work!

 

<?php
$code = 'a:7:{s:10:"country_id";s:3:"226";s:5:"email";s:15:"email@wi.rr.com";s:10:"last_visit";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:7:"created";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:8:"modified";s:19:"0000-00-00 00:00:00";s:3:"URI";s:5:"/home";s:17:"FreakAuth_captcha";s:5:"sqqpi";}';
$data = unserialize($code);
print $data['country_id'];
?>

[pianoman993]

It definitely need to be unserialized. Thank you for your help. My code now works! Thank you!

[premiso]

i thought it was serialized too, but it wasn't...try this:

 

After some testing, there must be "whitespaces" in the email portion "s:22:"email@wi.rr.com" is not 22 characters.

 

<?php
$string = 'a:7:{s:10:"country_id";s:3:"226";s:5:"email";s:15:"email@wi.rr.com";s:10:"last_visit";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:7:"created";s:19:"2009-02-20 10:22:58";s:8:"modified";s:19:"0000-00-00 00:00:00";s:3:"URI";s:5:"/home";s:17:"FreakAuth_captcha";s:5:"sqqpi";}';
$arr = unserialize($string);
print_r($arr);
?>

 

It may work out of the box for him as the string may be formatted right, just not copied right. If it does not work, changing that email to be 15 makes it work just fine with the unserialize function.

 

Interesting that it is that picky.

 

EDIT:

lol you found it out, oh well. I worked hard on finding that out, it deserved to be posted again