Posted by Rik on 04/25/07 16:41

mosesdinakaran@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to check weather a variable contains serialized
> data or not, as we hve some functions like
> ( is_ double,is_ float) to check the integer and float value.
>

Very messy, but I have to admit I've used it:

function is_serialized($var){
$check = @unserialize($var);
return ($check===false && $var != serialize(false)) ? false : true;
}

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Rik Wasmus

Estimated date being able to walk again: 01-05-2007.
Less then a week, hurray!

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