PHP unserialize fails with non-encoded characters?

Question

$ser = \'a:2:{i:0;s:5:\"héllö\";i:1;s:5:\"wörld\";}\'; // fails
$ser2 = \'a:2:{i:0;s:5:\"hello\";i:1;s:5:\"world\";}\'; // works
$out = unserialize($ser);
$out2 = un         


        

Answer 1

we can break the string down to an array:

$finalArray = array();
$nodeArr = explode('&', $_POST['formData']);

foreach($nodeArr as $value){
    $childArr = explode('=', $value);
    $finalArray[$childArr[0]] = $childArr[1];
}