Unserializing data doesn't work

Question

Been at this for the past 5 hours and I\'m stumped. Tried the most ridiculous functions to try and fix it but to no avail.

I\'m retrieving data from a WP database. The

Answer 1

I had the same problem with wp_options where custom post types have serialize data. I've figure that maybe there was a charset issue, and in fact... ta da! Try this:

$unserialized = unserialize( utf8_encode($atest[0]['option_value'] ) );

Where $atest[0] is thearray from mysql. Hope this helps!

Aisfrond