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Serialize (PHP)

Following up from Webvogel's excellent advice, I'm now trying to retrieve serialized() data from a MySQL database. The data is being sent to the database row as "a:1:{i:0;s:25:"CompanyName field changed";}" which is great, as I know it works. The problem therein, however, is pulling it back to unserialize it.

Even if I do a simple <?php echo unserialize($row2['Adjustment']); ?> it returns a blank value. Yet, doing an echo $row2['Adjustment'] returns the serialized stuff mentioned above. For everything else, it returns "Array".

I'll attach the code I'm using. Any help would, as always, be much appreciated. I expect I'm doing something really quite simple (as usual). Thanks.

/* snippet */
/* the <div> is basically a mouseover tooltip that is meant to display the unserialized data from the database....hence why I called the variable $tooltip....  ;)  */
 
<?php do { ?>
 
<?php if ($row2['Adjustment'] == "emailed") { echo "emailed"; } else if ($row2['Adjustment'] == "printed") { echo "printed"; } else if ($row2['Adjustment'] == "bookmarked") { echo "bookmarked"; } else if ($row2['LatestModification'] <> "") { echo "<div onMouseover=\"ddrivetip('".$tooltip."', 250)\"; onMouseout=\"hideddrivetip()\">modified</div>"; } ?></td>
<?php } while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql2));
					$tooltip = unserialize($row2['Adjustment']);  # <-- !!!!!! this here !!!!!!!
					$rows = mysql_num_rows($sql2);
					if($rows > 0) {
						mysql_data_seek($sql, 0);
							$row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql2);
					}
			?>
 
<?php } ?>
 
 
 
 
/* and just in case you need to know the Array....here it is. Thanks again for this Webvogel! */
 
<?php 
 
foreach($row as $key => $val){
        if ($row[$key] != $_POST[$map[$key]]){
                $change[] = $key.' field changed';
        }
}
 
$adjustment = serialize($change);
 
?>

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Beverley Portlock

You have a ; at the end of your while loop. Remove it.

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BenthamLtd

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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting ';' on line 1204

The while loop was working anyway. Any other ideas?

Beverley Portlock

I am not clear whether you are trying to achieve this

while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql2))
$tooltip = unserialize($row2['Adjustment']); # <-- !!!!!! this here !!!!!!!

$rows = mysql_num_rows($sql2);

if($rows > 0) {
mysql_data_seek($sql, 0);
$row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql2);
}

or this

while ($row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql2)) {
$tooltip = unserialize($row2['Adjustment']); # <-- !!!!!! this here !!!!!!!

$rows = mysql_num_rows($sql2);

if($rows > 0) {
mysql_data_seek($sql, 0);
$row2 = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql2);
}

}

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BenthamLtd

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Whoops sorry, I forgot to update this post. We've solved it now but thank you for all your help guys. Seems we didn't need to use serialize after all. Just implode.

Happy to give a throw a few points around for the useful comments.

<?php
 
// GET VALUES FROM DATABASE TABLE. STORE THEM INTO ARRAY. //
 
$query0 = "SELECT Status, ActioneeID, TypeID, Sales_Ledger_No, ProblemsClass, CompanyName, InvoiceDate, ContactName, AccountManager, Postcode, OrderConfirmedByID, Email, Phone, GoodsToBeReturned_1, GoodsToBeReturned_1_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_2, GoodsToBeReturned_2_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_3, GoodsToBeReturned_3_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_4, GoodsToBeReturned_4_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_5, GoodsToBeReturned_5_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_6, GoodsToBeReturned_6_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_7, GoodsToBeReturned_7_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_8, GoodsToBeReturned_8_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_9, GoodsToBeReturned_9_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_10, GoodsToBeReturned_10_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_11, GoodsToBeReturned_11_qty, GoodsToBeReturned_12, GoodsToBeReturned_12_qty from vedit_sheet WHERE Sheet_No='$sheet'";
$sql0 = mysql_query($query0) or die(mysql_error());
$row0 = mysql_fetch_assoc($sql0);
$rows0 = mysql_num_rows($sql0);
 
# FORMAT: a<form> = hidden form for array lookup (drop down boxes). f<form> = original form name from sheet (text fields).
$map = array('Status' => 'aStatus', 'Actionee' => 'aActionee', 'Type' => 'aType', 'Sales_Ledger_No' => 'fSalesRef', 'ProblemsClass' => 'aProblems', 'CompanyName' => 'fCompany', 'InvoiceDate' => 'fInvoice', 'ContactName' => 'fContact', 'AccountManager' => 'aAccountMan', 'Postcode' => 'fPostcode', 'OrderConfirmedByID' => 'fConfirmedBy', 'Email' => 'fEmail', 'Phone' => 'fPhone');  // map array: name of database field = name of form field
 
foreach($row0 as $key => $val){
        if ($row0[$key] != $_POST[$map[$key]]){
                $array[] = $key.' field changed from '.$val.' ' ;
       	    }
}
 
$comma_sep = implode("<br>",$array);
 
$update_sheet_history = "INSERT INTO sheet_history (Sheet_No, UserID, LatestModification, Adjustment) VALUES ('$sheet', '$_SESSION[userID]', now(), '$comma_sep') ";

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