php unserialize adding brackets around array keys?

[ballhogjoni]

the code is simple but the output is wrong.

 

$str = <<<EOF
a:2:{s:7:"visible";a:7:{i:0;s:5:"email";i:1;s:5:"print";i:2;s:8:"facebook";i:3;s:4:"digg";i:4;s:11:"stumbleupon";i:5;s:7:"twitter";i:6;s:6:"reddit";}s:6:"hidden";a:0:{}}
EOF;
echo "<textarea rows='10' cols='90'>";print_r(unserialize($str));echo "</textarea>";

 

the ouput is

Array
(
    [visible] => Array
        (
            [0] => email
            [1] => print
            [2] => facebook
            [3] => digg
            [4] => stumbleupon
            [5] => twitter
            [6] => reddit
        )

    [hidden] => Array
        (
        )

)

 

This is wrong I need something like this:

array (
  'visible' => 
  array (
    0 => 'email',
    1 => 'print',
    2 => 'facebook',
    3 => 'digg',
    4 => 'stumbleupon',
    5 => 'twitter',
    6 => 'reddit',
  ),
  'hidden' => 
  array (
  ),
)

 

What am I doing wrong? How do I fix it?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

That's the output representation that the print_r statement uses so that you can identify what is what. The array keys are just fine.

[ballhogjoni]

ok...I am trying to copy the output from the browser, but it doesn't work because of the brackets plus the browser parses the strings without the quotes. How can I do this? Basically I want to serialize it after i've made my changes to the unserialized array.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You assign the value that unserialize() returns to a php variable -

 

$arr = unserialize($str);

[ballhogjoni]

ok great. I just used var_dump the variable in a textarea to the browser and that seemed to work.