OK, I don't have the problem any more but I decided to go ahead with the
post anyway (since I already wrote it up).
I solved the problem by turning off magic quotes in the php.ini file. I made
this file for the purposes of a training course I'm writing.
At the bottom of this email I've included the source.
The error is:
Warning: unserialize() failed at offset 8 of 157 bytes in [blah].php on line
17
I'm running PHP 4.1.1 on win2k testing with IE5.5 and also Netscape 6.2.1
There shouldn't be an issue with setting the cookie since I can successfully
display the serialised cookie (see debug line).
Thanks in advance.
[TK]
Here comes the code.
<?php
$needARefresh = FALSE ;
if(isset($frmAction)){
$token = array(
'name' => $frmName,
'food' => $frmFood,
'colour' => $frmColour,
'petHate' => $frmPetHate,
'joke' => $frmJoke
) ;
$safeToken = serialize($token);
setcookie("personalisedInfo",$safeToken);
$needARefresh = TRUE ;
}
if(isset($_COOKIE["personalisedInfo"])){
echo $_COOKIE["personalisedInfo"] ; //debug
$arrayBack = unserialize($_COOKIE["personalisedInfo"]);
$name = $arrayBack['name'];
$food = $arrayBack['food'];
$colour = $arrayBack['colour'];
$petHate = $arrayBack['petHate'];
$joke = $arrayBack['joke'];
} else {
$name = NULL ;
$food = NULL ;
$colour = NULL ;
$petHate = NULL ;
$joke = NULL ;
}
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP tutorial: serialize/unserialize</title>
<?php if($needARefresh) { ?>
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0;URL=<?= $PHP_SELF ?>">
<?php } ?>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The serializer()</h1>
<table>
<caption>A survey</caption>
<form action="<?= $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post">
<tr>
<td align="right">your name:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="frmName" value="<?= $name ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">favourite food:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="frmFood" value="<?= $food ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">favourite colour:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="frmColour" value="<?= $colour ?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">pet hate:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="frmPetHate" value="<?= $petHate
?>"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="right">tell me a joke:</td>
<td><textarea cols="" rows="" name="frmJoke"><?= $joke
?></textarea></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td> </td>
<td><input type="submit" name="frmAction" value="send"></td>
</tr>
</form>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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