Posted by Robert Cummings on 10/26/05 07:50

On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 00:28, Ken Tozier wrote:
> I'm having a major problem with what seems, on it's face, to be a
> really basic array function.
>
> What happens is on the browser end, I've written some javascript code
> that packages up javascript variables in native PHP format and sends
> the packed variables to a PHP script on the server via a POST and
> XMLHTTP. On the server end, the PHP script grabs the packed variables
> out of the $_POST, strips slashes and uses the "unserialize" command.
>
> Here's the function that gets the post data
> $unpacked_data = GetDataFromPOST();
>
> And here's a var_dump of $unpacked_data as it appears in the browser
> array(1) { ["handler"]=> array(1) { ["0"]=> string(9)
> "databases" } }
>
> I'm able to get the "handler with no problem like so:
> $parts = $unpacked_data['handler'];
>
> Which yields the following var_dump
> array(1) { ["0"]=> string(9) "databases" }

I did the following as a test:

<?php
$unpacked_data = array
(
'handler' => array
(
'0' => 'databases',
),
);
?>

var_dump( $unpacked_data );

and I did...

<?php
$unpacked_data = array
(
'handler' => array
(
"0" => 'databases',
),
);

var_dump( $unpacked_data );
?>

I also tried:

<?php
$unpacked_data = array
(
'handler' => array
(
'"0"' => 'databases',
),
);

var_dump( $unpacked_data );
?>

But no matter what I did I could NOT get var_dump to dump my 0 key for
the 'databases' as you have in your output. So methinks therein may lie
your problem. Perhaps during the serialization in javascript check if
the key is an integer-like string and if so then convert to an integer
for the key serialization.

Let us know if it works :)

Cheers,
Rob.
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