Check to see if a string is serialized?

Question

What\'s the best way to determine whether or not a string is the result of the serialize() function?

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.serialize

Answer 1

Optimizing Pascal MARTIN's response

/**
 * Check if a string is serialized
 * @param string $string
 */
public static function is_serial($string) {
    return (@unserialize($string) !== false);
}