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Bogdan Alexandru Militaru
Bogdan Alexandru Militaru

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Unserialize php in Javascript Nodejs

#php #node #javascript #webdev 
import PhpUnserialize from 'php-unserialize';

const serialized = 'a:0:{}'
const jsObject = PhpUnserialize.unserialize(serialized);
console.log(jsObject) // {}
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NPM Library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/php-unserialize

What happens if your serialized string contains special characters ? yeah, it fails!

In order to solve that we can use

import encoding from 'encoding';

export function convertToUtf8Win1252(str) {
  return encoding.convert(str, 'WINDOWS-1252').toString();
}
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So mixing both functions:

export function unserializePhp(str) {
  return PhpUnserialize
    .unserialize(convertToUtf8Win1252(str));
}
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NPM Library: https://www.npmjs.com/package/encoding

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