[wp-hackers] Changes to widget data in 2.3?

[Otto]

What do you mean "only on pages"? Widgets do not support per-page
configuration currently.

Are you using some kind of plugin to allow this? I searched and could
not find "widgeties" anywhere in the normal source code.

As for the s:117, that's WordPress's way of specifying a string.

Example:
a:1:{i:0;s:4:"pb-3";}

That's specifying an array with 1 item in it. When it's parsed back
into a PHP array, it'll have arrayname[0]="pb-3". The i:0 is an
integer. The s:4:"pb-3" is a string. The four means 4 characters in
it.

So, what you posted shows a 117 character long string. It just happens
to contain something that itself is a serialized array. I suspect that
the plugin you're using works differently under 2.3 than it did
before.


On 12/14/07, Jairus Pryor <jairus at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm testing an upgrade to 2.3, and I noticed that widgets were having
> problems, but only on pages on which I hadn't made any changes to the
> widgets since upgrading. If I saved a page as-is, the widgets would
> start rendering problem-free.
>
> So I saved a page (having made no changes), and looked at the DB
> before and after:
>
> Before
> (4082, 2935, '_widgeties',
> 'a:3:{s:9:"sidebar-1";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"pb-3";}s:9:"sidebar-2";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"pb-1";}s:9:"sidebar-3";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"pb-2";}}'),
>
> After
> (4082, 2935, '_widgeties',
> 's:117:"a:3:{s:9:"sidebar-1";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"pb-3";}s:9:"sidebar-2";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"pb-1";}s:9:"sidebar-3";a:1:{i:0;s:4:"pb-2";}}";'),
>
> ...so the change that I can see is that it's now part of the data is
> encapsulated, like so:
>
> s:117:"DATAHERE";
>
> Does anyone know what the "s:117" is referring to, and what the change
> was made in regards to?
>
> Jairus
> _______________________________________________
> wp-hackers mailing list
> wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
> http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-hackers
>