[wp-testers] Changes

[Duane Storey]

I've having some problems with a plugin I wrote and version 2.6.  It
now appears that when saving or getting options from wordpress, that
somewhere an implicit serialize or unserialize is happening.

Here's a bit of code with a bit of debug around it.

            print_r($a);
            $values = serialize($a);
            print_r($values);
            update_option('bnc_iphone_pages', $values);
            $x = get_option('bnc_iphone_pages');
            print_r($x);

the value of $a at the beginning is:

Array ( [enable-main-home] => 1 [enable-main-rss] => 1
[enable-main-email] => 1 [enable-main-name] => 0 [enable-main-tags] =>
0 [enable-main-categories] => 1 [main_title] => Book.png
[header-background-color] => 222222 [header-text-color] => eeeeee
[link-color] => 006bb3 )

After it's serialized (the second line), it looks like this:

a:10:{s:16:"enable-main-home";i:1;s:15:"enable-main-rss";i:1;s:17:"enable-main-email";i:1;s:16:"enable-main-name";i:0;s:16:"enable-main-tags";i:0;s:22:"enable-main-categories";i:1;s:10:"main_title";s:8:"Book.png";s:23:"header-background-color";s:6:"222222";s:17:"header-text-color";s:6:"eeeeee";s:10:"link-color";s:6:"006bb3";}

Which is an array, as expected.  Next, I updated the field in the
database using update_option.  After, I read it back using get_option.
 Now, when I output it, it's an array and not a serialized test
string:

Array ( [enable-main-home] => 1 [enable-main-rss] => 1
[enable-main-email] => 1 [enable-main-name] => 0 [enable-main-tags] =>
0 [enable-main-categories] => 1 [main_title] => Book.png
[header-background-color] => 222222 [header-text-color] => eeeeee
[link-color] => 006bb3 )

This causes problems because the rest of the code assumes it's
serialized, and the unserialize method doesn't like an array being
past it.

Does anyone know if the code has changed in core for 2.6?  It looks
like this might have to do with some cache code in the options code in
2.6.

Thanks,
Duane