How do I get data from requested server page? - php

Question

I got two php pages:
client.php and server.php
server.php is on my web server and what it does is open my amazon product page and get price data and serialize it and return it to client.php.
Now the problem I have is that server.php is getting the data, but when I return it and do echo after using unserialize(), it shows nothing. But if I do echo in server.php, it shows me all the data.
Why is this happening? Can anyone help me please?
This the code I have used:
client.php
$url = "http://www.myurl.com/iec/Server.php?asin=$asin&platform=$platform_variant";
$azn_data = file_get_contents($url);
$azn_data = unserialize($azn_data);
echo "\nReturned Data = $azn_data\n";
server.php
if(isset($_GET["asin"]))
{
$asin = $_GET["asin"];
$platform = $_GET["platform"];
echo "\nASIN = $asin\nPlatform = $platform";
//Below line gets all serialize price data for my product
$serialized_data = amazon_data_chooser($asin, $platform);
return($serialized_data);
}
else
{
echo "Warning: No Data Found!";
}

Answer 1

On server.php , you need to replace your following line:
return($serialized_data);
for this one:
echo $serialized_data;
because client.php reads the output of server.php, return is used to pass information from functions to caller code.
UPDATE:
Apart from the fixes above, you're hitting a bug in unserialize() function that presents with some special combination of characters, which your data seems to have, the solution is to workaround the bug by base64() encoding the data prior to passing it to serialize() , like this:
In client.php:
$azn_data = unserialize(base64_decode($azn_data));
In server.php:
echo base64_encode($serialized_data);
Source for this fix here .

Answer 2

You are not serializing your data on server side so there is nothing to deserialize on client side.
return(serialize($serialized_data));
Edit:
if(isset($_GET["asin"]))
{
$asin = $_GET["asin"];
$platform = $_GET["platform"];
echo "\nASIN = $asin\nPlatform = $platform";
//Below line gets all serialize price data for my product
$serialized_data = amazon_data_chooser($asin, $platform);
die(serialize($serialized_data));
}
else
{
echo "Warning: No Data Found!";
}