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PHP is_serialized() function.
<?php
/**
* This program is free software. It comes without any warranty, to
* the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
* and/or modify it under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
* To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
* http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.
*/
/**
* Tests if an input is valid PHP serialized string.
*
* Checks if a string is serialized using quick string manipulation
* to throw out obviously incorrect strings. Unserialize is then run
* on the string to perform the final verification.
*
* Valid serialized forms are the following:
* <ul>
* <li>boolean: <code>b:1;</code></li>
* <li>integer: <code>i:1;</code></li>
* <li>double: <code>d:0.2;</code></li>
* <li>string: <code>s:4:"test";</code></li>
* <li>array: <code>a:3:{i:0;i:1;i:1;i:2;i:2;i:3;}</code></li>
* <li>object: <code>O:8:"stdClass":0:{}</code></li>
* <li>null: <code>N;</code></li>
* </ul>
*
* @author Chris Smith <code+php@chris.cs278.org>
* @copyright Copyright (c) 2009 Chris Smith (http://www.cs278.org/)
* @license http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ WTFPL
* @param string $value Value to test for serialized form
* @param mixed $result Result of unserialize() of the $value
* @return boolean True if $value is serialized data, otherwise false
*/
function is_serialized($value, &$result = null)
{
// Bit of a give away this one
if (!is_string($value))
{
return false;
}
// Serialized false, return true. unserialize() returns false on an
// invalid string or it could return false if the string is serialized
// false, eliminate that possibility.
if ($value === 'b:0;')
{
$result = false;
return true;
}
$length = strlen($value);
$end = '';
switch ($value[0])
{
case 's':
if ($value[$length - 2] !== '"')
{
return false;
}
case 'b':
case 'i':
case 'd':
// This looks odd but it is quicker than isset()ing
$end .= ';';
case 'a':
case 'O':
$end .= '}';
if ($value[1] !== ':')
{
return false;
}
switch ($value[2])
{
case 0:
case 1:
case 2:
case 3:
case 4:
case 5:
case 6:
case 7:
case 8:
case 9:
break;
default:
return false;
}
case 'N':
$end .= ';';
if ($value[$length - 1] !== $end[0])
{
return false;
}
break;
default:
return false;
}
if (($result = @unserialize($value)) === false)
{
$result = null;
return false;
}
return true;
}
@xfoxawy
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xfoxawy commented Nov 13, 2014

great work ... testing it

@hazratgs
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nice work!

@MarkMaldaba
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Neat function.

Unit tests? :-)

@andibastian
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thanks, nice work dude

@dominikdosoudil
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dominikdosoudil commented Mar 18, 2017

Thanks 🐱 🥇
Just added || empty($value) after is_string :)

@Tadek888
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Thanks !

@HeshamGhoniem2020
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Working Great

thanks

@gilbertoalbino
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gilbertoalbino commented May 1, 2022

As of Wordpress uses serialize checks a lot, here's how it is handled by Wordpress:
https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/5.9/src/wp-includes/functions.php#L660-L716

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