Regex/ code to fix corrupt serialized PHP data.

Question

I have a massive multidimensional array that has been serialised by PHP. It has been stored in MySQL and the data field wasn\'t large enough... the end has been cut off... I

Answer 1

Based on @Emil M Answer Here is a fixed version that works with text containing double quotes .

function fix_broken_serialized_array($match) {
    return "s:".strlen($match[2]).":\"".$match[2]."\";"; 
}
$fixed = preg_replace_callback(
    '/s:([0-9]+):"(.*?)";/',
    "fix_broken_serialized_array",
    $serialized
);