From 0d51567bb79ebe573bb6e23824da99c104d6d749 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Gabor Hojtsy <goba@php.net>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 16:48:55 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Some clarifications on unserialize()

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@75937 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 functions/var.xml | 16 +++++++---------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/functions/var.xml b/functions/var.xml
index f44070b145..155a02f862 100644
--- a/functions/var.xml
+++ b/functions/var.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.101 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.102 $ -->
  <reference id="ref.variables">
   <title>Variable Functions</title>
   <titleabbrev>Variables</titleabbrev>
@@ -1133,8 +1133,6 @@ settype($bar, "string");  // $bar is now "1" (string)
      back into a PHP value.  The converted value is returned, and can
      be an <type>integer</type>, <type>float</type>,
      <type>string</type>, <type>array</type> or <type>object</type>.
-     If an object was serialized, its methods are not preserved in the
-     returned value.
     </simpara>
     <note>
      <para>
@@ -1144,7 +1142,7 @@ settype($bar, "string");  // $bar is now "1" (string)
       Use your &php.ini;, <function>ini_set</function> or .htaccess-file 
        to define 'unserialize_callback_func'. 
       Everytime an undefined class should be instanciated, it'll be called. 
-      To disable this feature just empty this global variable.
+      To disable this feature just empty this setting.
      </para>
     </note>
     <para>
@@ -1179,9 +1177,9 @@ function mycallback($classname) {
       <title><function>unserialize</function> example</title>
       <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
-// Here, we use unserialize() to load session data from a database
-// into $session_data.    This example complements the one described
-// with <function>serialize</function>.
+// Here, we use unserialize() to load session data to the
+// $session_data array from the string selected from a database.
+// This example complements the one described with serialize().
 
 $conn = odbc_connect ("webdb", "php", "chicken");
 $stmt = odbc_prepare ($conn, "SELECT data FROM sessions WHERE id = ?");
@@ -1193,8 +1191,8 @@ if (!odbc_execute ($stmt, &$sqldata) || !odbc_fetch_into ($stmt, &$tmp)) {
     // we should now have the serialized data in $tmp[0].
     $session_data = unserialize ($tmp[0]);
     if (!is_array ($session_data)) {
-    // something went wrong, initialize to empty array
-    $session_data = array();
+        // something went wrong, initialize to empty array
+        $session_data = array();
     }
 }
 ]]>