cannot unserialize serialized getimagesize array from file - php

I have a file, "serialized.txt", which contains a serialized array (created by doing serialize($array)).
s:133:"a:7:{i:0;i:640;i:1;i:480;i:2;i:2;i:3;s:24:"width="640" height="480"";s:4:"bits";i:8;s:8:"channels";i:3;s:4:"mime";s:10:"image/jpeg";}";
To fetch the contents I do:
$string = file_get_contents("serialized.txt");
Then I do:
print_r(unserialize($string));
The output that I get:
a:7:{i:0;i:640;i:1;i:480;i:2;i:2;i:3;s:24:"width="640" height="480"";s:4:"bits";i:8;s:8:"channels";i:3;s:4:"mime";s:10:"image/jpeg";}
This is the unserialized version of the string (contents of the file) when it should be printing the unserialized array. If I copy the string and do the following:
print_r(unserialize('a:7:{i:0;i:640;i:1;i:480;i:2;i:2;i:3;s:24:"width="640" height="480"";s:4:"bits";i:8;s:8:"channels";i:3;s:4:"mime";s:10:"image/jpeg";}'));
I get the correct output:
Array
(
[0] => 640
[1] => 480
[2] => 2
[3] => width="640" height="480"
[bits] => 8
[channels] => 3
[mime] => image/jpeg
)
So the problem seems to be isolated to the serialized array when pulling from the file.
According to the unserialize docs the function should be returning false if there is a problem; not the contents of the string.
The serialized data is taken from getimagesize and I have verified that if I serialize another array and place it into the file:
serialize(array("hi"));
I can successfully generate the output:
Array
(
[0] => hi
)
Are there any ideas why this may be happening? A bug with the serialization process relating to a getimagesize array, or potentially a "hidden" character in the file that my copy and paste removes? I have millions of these files already generated so it's not possible for me to change the storage method. I guess the solution may just be to write my own parser to serialize the array? The input is always the same format so that's plausible, but I would like to know of this a bug or my error with something somewhere.

As far as I can see your data is double serialized so the following code should print your array:
$string = file_get_contents("serialized.txt");
print_r(unserialize(unserialize($string)));
Although you should think about how you save to file. You may want to remove one serialization.
Does that solve your problem?

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PHP "exec" cannot access filenames which have national Danish characters?

I am creating a web page on my CentOS server, where I want to traverse all my photos and videos and then show them on my page. However then it seems that when the files have our Danish national characters included, like æøåÆØÅ, then my exec command cannot access the file - and I need the exec command as I need mediainfo to show-and-tell the format and other details of the file (video, audio or image).
Let's assume I have this data and array that I am traversing (3 files):
$folder = "!My Folder"; // parent folder has a special char
Array
(
[0] => Array
(
[filename] => !file #2.jpg
[descr] => File with special chars, but no national chars
)
[1] => Array
(
[filename] => file with Danish æøå.jpg
[descr] => File with Danish chars, but no special chars
)
[2] => Array
(
[filename] => file with no special.jpg
[descr] => File with nothing special
)
)
I am then reading the mediainfo info from PHP like this:
$param = escapeshellarg("$folder/$filename"); // escape file argument
exec("mediainfo $param", $outputArray); // store line-by-line output in an array
This works fine for file [0] and [2] (I get a populated array), but [1] just returns an empty array from the output:
Array
(
[0] =>
)
As a note then I am able to use mediainfo directly on the server and doing this will work fine and return detailed data:
[usr#srv !My Folder]# mediainfo file\ with\ Danish\ æøå.jpg
So it seems to be the exec that has some problems with this?
I am using PHP 8.1 and I have no problem accessing or storing files on my server, via Samba, with these Danish characters.
An alternative solution would be to rename the files with these characters, but ideally I hope to avoid doing that as it is kind of "destructive" (messing with the original files).
Does anyone have a good idea how to access those files via exec?
### UPDATE 1 - BUT STILL NO SOLUTION ###
Just to make it crystal clear and to "prove" this is something related to exec then I refer to the answer from #CBroe below and adding one additional line to set the locale character encoding in PHP, setlocale + outputting the exec command:
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8");
$param = escapeshellarg("$folder/$filename");
exec("mediainfo $param", $outputArray);
echo "mediainfo $param";
The echo will output this (and an empty array):
mediainfo '/server/original/!My Folder/file with Danish æøå.jpg'
But if I run this exact same command directly on my server, mediainfo '/server/original/!My Folder/file with Danish æøå.jpg' then it will show me the media info for the file:
I also believe that this is some character encoding issue, but yet I do not know how to solve it ;-)
### UPDATE 2 - BUT STILL NO SOLUTION ###
As suggested below, then I also did try using putenv('LANG=en_US.UTF-8'), but for me that didn't help. I also tried using shell_exec() instead of exec() - same result and it did not help.
putenv("LANG=en_US.UTF-8");
$folder = "!My Folder"; // parent folder has a special char
$filename = "file with Danish æøå.jpg";
$param = escapeshellarg("$folder/$filename");
$output = shell_exec("mediainfo $param");
$outputArray = explode("\n",$output);
print_r($outputArray);
This will result in an array with two empty values:
Array
(
[0] =>
[1] =>
)
Somewhat late, but i stumbled across this today (pretty much the same, filename from glob() function and working further). This is not a problem of exec() but of the environment that mediainfo uses.
If you use UTF-8 filenames, it is essential to set the LANG environment correctly.
putenv('LANG=en_US.UTF-8');
worked for me.
Testing echo escapeshellarg("file with Danish æøå.jpg"); on https://3v4l.org/FEWfI only gives me 'file with Danish .jpg' as result.
Checking the user comments for the function, there is https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.escapeshellarg.php#99213:
When escapeshellarg() was stripping my non-ASCII characters from a UTF-8 string, adding the following fixed the problem:
<?php
setlocale(LC_CTYPE, "en_US.UTF-8");
?>
That indeed appears to fix the problem, https://3v4l.org/1DfpF - result now is 'file with Danish æøå.jpg'

EXIF does not return orienation details with PHP

I am trying to get image orientation details using PHP exif_read_data() Function but unfortunately I am unable to get the desired details. I am getting only
Array
(
[FILE] => Array
(
[FileName] => sasfasdfasd-asdf-asdasdf-afdsd-767563900.jpg
[FileDateTime] => 1541527956
[FileSize] => 302871
[FileType] => 2
[MimeType] => image/jpeg
[SectionsFound] => COMMENT
)
[COMPUTED] => Array
(
[html] => width="1000" height="750"
[Height] => 750
[Width] => 1000
[IsColor] => 1
)
[COMMENT] => Array
(
[0] => CREATOR: gd-jpeg v1.0 (using IJG JPEG v90), quality = 100
)
)
I am using PHP 7.2
Can someone please tell me how can I get Image orientation details using PHP?
I have checked my GD libraries as well as EXIF using PHP info. They are working fine.
Unfortunately the image you have created is done using LibGD, which by default does not write any extended EXIF data.
As the maintainer of the EXIF Extension that comes with PHP, I can give you a little inside of how this works under the hood:
When you load in an image using exif_read_data(), then by default the above sections are returned (with the exception of COMMENT in your case; as it is generated by LibGD). If a MAKERNOTE section is found within the binary meta data of the image, then PHP will attempt to resolve the value to one of the known formats to PHP[1].
If a signature is then matched with one of the known formats, then PHP will read all the relevant IFD (Image File Data) data from the header and attempt to resolve some of the tag names according to a baked in list of tags. This makes the returned array much more reliant to work with, instead of having to write code like echo $exif['0x0112']; (Orientation), the array becomes something like: echo $exif['Orientation'];.
If a signature however is not matched, then PHP will still attempt to read the relevant EXIF data within an image, however tags will not be mapped for non standard tags. PHP will also continue to read things like thumbnail data etc, given the binary data is following the EXIF specification.
Finally; PHP's EXIF extension is read-only, so even if you were to know your orientation from the image in question, you can't manually write it with the default extension that comes with PHP I'm afraid.
[1] http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=blob;f=ext/exif/exif.c;h=d37a61f83da7bd8c14eeaa0d14762e3a4e7c80e6;hb=HEAD#l1336

PHP Associative array strange behavior

I am using an associative array which I initialized like this:
$img_captions = array();
Then, later in the code I am filling it in a while loop with keys and values coming in from a .txt file (every line in that .txt file contains a pair - a string - separated by '|') looking like this:
f1.jpg|This is a caption for this specific file
f2.jpg|Yea, also this one
f3.jpg|And this too for sure
...
I am filling the associative array with those data like this:
if (file_exists($currentdir ."/captions.txt"))
{
$file_handle = fopen($currentdir ."/captions.txt", "rb");
while (!feof($file_handle) )
{
$line_of_text = fgets($file_handle);
$parts = explode('/n', $line_of_text);
foreach($parts as $img_capts)
{
list($img_filename, $img_caption) = explode('|', $img_capts);
$img_captions[$img_filename] = $img_caption;
}
}
fclose($file_handle);
}
When I test that associative array if it actually contains keys and values like:
print_r(array_keys($img_captions));
print_r(array_values($img_captions));
...I see it contains them as expected, BUT when I try to actually use them with direct calling like, let's say for instance:
echo $img_captions['f1.jpg'];
I get PHP error saying:
Notice: Undefined index: f1.jpg in...
I am clueless what is going on here - can anyone tell, please?
BTW I am using USBWebserver with PHP 5.3.
UPDATE 1: so by better exploring the output of the 'print_r(array_keys($img_captions));' inside Chrome (F12 key) I noticed something strange - THE FIRST LINE OF '[0] => f1.jpg' LOOKS VISUALLY VERY WEIRD tho it looks normal when displayed as print_r() output on the site, I noticed it actually in fact is coded like this in webpage source (F12):
Array
(
[0] => f1.jpg
[1] => f2.jpg
[2] => f3.jpg
[3] => f4.jpg
[4] => f5.jpg
[5] => f6.jpg
[6] => f7.jpg
[7] => f8.jpg
[8] => f9.jpg
[9] => f10.jpg
)
So when I tested anything else than the 1. line it works OK. I tryed to delete completely the file and re-write it once again but still the same occurs...
DISCLAIMER Guys, just to clarify things more properly: THIS IS NOT MY ORIGINAL CODE (that is 'done completely by me'), it is
actually a MiniGal Nano PHP photogalery I had just make to suit my
needs but those specific parts we are talking about are FROM THE
ORIGINAL AUTHOR
I will recommend you to use file() along wth trim().
Your code becomes short, readable and easy to understand.
$parts= file('your text file url', FILE_IGNORE_NEW_LINES | FILE_SKIP_EMPTY_LINES);
$img_captions = [];
foreach($parts as $img_capts){
list($img_filename, $img_caption) = explode('|', $img_capts);
$img_captions[trim(preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]+;/i","",$img_filename))] = trim(preg_replace("/&#?[a-z0-9]+;/i","",$img_caption));
}
print_r($img_captions);
So after a while I realize there is something wrong with my .txt file itself as it:-
ALWAYS PUT SOME STRANGE SIGNS IN FRONT OF THE 1st LINE WHATEVER I DO IT WAS ALWAYS THERE EVEN WITH THE NEW FILE CREATED FROM SCRATCH (although those are UNVISIBLE unless seen as a source code on a webpage!!!)
So I decided to test it in another format, this time .log file and all of a sudden everything works just fine.
I do not know if it is just my local problem of some sort (most probably is) or something else I am not aware of.
But my solution to this was changing the file type holding the string pairs (.txt => .log) which solved this 'problem' for me.
Some other possible solution to this as #AbraCadaver said:
(Those strange signs: [0] => f1.jpg) That's the HTML entity for a BYTE ORDER MARK or BOM, save your file
with no BOM in whatever editor you're using.

Saving console application output in an array directly

How can we do further comparision or computation on the output of a console application. As I believe it is in ASCII form. I have called the console application in php which gives a huge amount of numeric datas. I want that data to be saved on an array and not in a txt file as the process of reading and writing a file takes time I want it to directly save it in an array. I used exec($command,$result) but I cannot get the result to be saved in proper form. My output is as shown below:
Columns 1 through 7
0.1373 0.0414 0.0541 0.1342 0.5606 0.5293 0.1652
Columns 8 through 14
0.0341 0.0396 0.0633 0.0778 0.0289 0.0654 0.0752
Columns 15 through 21
0.3055 0.4602 0.0631 0.0360 0.0188 0.0497 0.0228...........
I dont want the columns line to be saved in the array and I want each element in column to be saved in different index of array. Eg array[1]=0.1373 and array [2]=0.414.
My suggestion would be a simple regular expression that you run on each line of the output:
if (preg_match_all('/\d+\.\d+/', $line, $matches)) {
print_r($matches[0]);
}
If the expression matches, you will have an array of results that you can use for further processing. The output for the first line that matches from your post:
Array
(
[0] => 0.1373
[1] => 0.0414
[2] => 0.0541
[3] => 0.1342
[4] => 0.5606
[5] => 0.5293
[6] => 0.1652
)
You can catch the output of an external command using [s,t]=system(...).
The second output shall be the string for what you have in the file.
Then you can parse the string (with regexp for example or str split utils) to extract the data as you want.

Parse large XML file over FTP

I need to parse a large XML file (>1 GB) which is located on a FTP server. I have a FTP stream aquired by ftp_connect(). (I use this stream for other FTP-related actions)
I know XMLReader is preferred for large XML files, but it will only accept a URI. So I assume a stream wrapper will be required. And the only ftp-function I know of which will allow me to retrieve only a small part of the file is ftp_nb_fget() in combination with ftp_nb_continue().
However, I do not know how I should put all of this together to make sure that a minimum amount of memory is used.
It looks like you may need to build on top of the low-level XML parser bits.
In particular, you can use xml_parse to process XML one chunk of the XML string at a time, after calling the various xml_set_* functions with callbacks to handle elements, character data, namespaces, entities, and so on. Those callbacks will be triggered whenever the parser detects that it has enough data to do so, which should mean that you can process the file as you read it in arbitrarily-sized chunks from the FTP site.
Proof of concept using CLI and xml_set_default_handler, which will get called for everything that doesn't have a specific handler:
php > $p = xml_parser_create('utf-8');
php > xml_set_default_handler($p, function() { print_r(func_get_args()); });
php > xml_parse($p, '<a');
php > xml_parse($p, '>');
php > xml_parse($p, 'Foo<b>Bar</b>Baz');
Array
(
[0] => Resource id #3
[1] => <a>
)
Array
(
[0] => Resource id #3
[1] => Foo
)
Array
(
[0] => Resource id #3
[1] => <b>
)
Array
(
[0] => Resource id #3
[1] => Bar
)
Array
(
[0] => Resource id #3
[1] => </b>
)
php > xml_parse($p, '</a>');
Array
(
[0] => Resource id #3
[1] => Baz
)
Array
(
[0] => Resource id #3
[1] => </a>
)
php >
This will depend on the schema of your XML file. But if it's something similar to RSS in that it's really just a long list of items (all encapsulated in a tag), then what I've done is to parse out the individual sections, and parse them as individual domdocuments:
$buffer = '';
while ($line = getLineFromFtp()) {
$buffer .= $line;
if (strpos($line, '</item>') !== false) {
parseBuffer($buffer);
$buffer = '';
}
}
That's pseudo code, but it's a light way of handling a specific type of XML file without building your own XMLReader. You'd of course need to check for opening tags as well, to ensure that the buffer is always a valid xml file.
Note that this won't work with all XML types. But if it fits, it's a easy and clean way of doing it while keeping your memory footprint as low as possible...
Hmm, I never tried that with FTP, but setting the Stream Context can be done with
libxml_set_streams_context — Set the streams context for the next libxml document load or write
Then just put in the FTP URI in open().
EDIT: Note that you can use the Stream Context for other actions as well. If you are uploading files, you can probably use the same stream context in combination with file_put_contents, so you dont necessarily need any of the ftp* functions at all.

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