serialize wont work?

[hiberphoptik]

trying to serialize an array and pass it in a form post but my simple test wont work

<?
$var1 = "hank";
$var2 = "bob";
$var3 = "joe";

$test = array($var1, $var2, $var3);

$serial = serialize($test);

echo "serialized array is $serial";
?>

all i get is N;

what am i missing here???

[laserlight]

I get:

serialized array is a:3:{i:0;s:4:"hank";i:1;s:3:"bob";i:2;s:3:"joe";}

[hiberphoptik]

hmmm.. could there be something wrong with my environment i am running in? does the serialize function rely on specific settings in php.ini or something? this is strange.

its not telling me undefined function and im using php 4.3.3 so it should be a supported function

confused 😕

[laserlight]

Just to confirm. Using this example script:

<?php
$var1 = "hank";
$var2 = "bob";
$var3 = "joe";

$test = array($var1, $var2, $var3);

$serial = serialize($test);

echo "serialized array is $serial";
?>

You get:

serialized array is N;

Is that correct?

[hiberphoptik]

laserlight wrote:

Just to confirm. Using this example script:

<?php
$var1 = "hank";
$var2 = "bob";
$var3 = "joe";

$test = array($var1, $var2, $var3);

$serial = serialize($test);

echo "serialized array is $serial";
?>

You get:

serialized array is N;

Is that correct?

exactly..

i might try another approach and just use a foreach loop to add each array value into its own hidden form element and group all of them into a new array on the other side.. not the way i wanted to do it but it will give me the same results 🙁