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Bug #28325 serialization of objects
Submitted: 2004-05-08 12:12 UTC Modified: 2005-02-05 03:40 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:0 (0.0%)
Same OS:0 (0.0%)
From: antonr at game dot permonline dot ru Assigned: moriyoshi (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Class/Object related
PHP Version: 4.3.9, 5.0.1 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2004-05-08 12:12 UTC] antonr at game dot permonline dot ru
Description:
------------
I have one object with property "myclass1", referenced to second object. And property "myclass2" of second object, referenced to first object.
When I serialize the first object and unserialize the result string, I get three objects: two copies of first object and a copy of second object. 

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
  class MyClass1
    { public $myclass2; 
      public $number;
    }

  class MyClass2
    { public $myclass1;
    }

  $a = new MyClass1;
  $a->number = 1;
  $a->myclass2 = new MyClass2;
  $a->myclass2->myclass1 = $a;

  $b = unserialize(serialize($a));
  $b->number = 2;
  echo $b->number;
  echo "\n"; 
  echo $b->myclass2->myclass1->number;
?>


Expected result:
----------------
If serialization was made correctly, then we would get that 
$b and $b->myclass2->myclass1 are references to one instance, and the output of script must be:

2
2


Actual result:
--------------
The actual output is

2
1

this means, that $b and $b->myclass2->myclass1 aren't references to the same instance

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 [2004-05-08 12:15 UTC] antonr at game dot permonline dot ru
but if change the line 

$a->myclass2->myclass1 = $a;

to

$a->myclass2->myclass1 = &$a;

serialization/unserialization works fine
 [2004-06-30 04:51 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net
Analysed.

Preliminary patch can be found here: http://www.voltex.jp/patches/

 [2004-07-05 10:00 UTC] moriyoshi@php.net
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.


 [2004-09-25 00:08 UTC] helly@php.net
Fixed in 4.3.10 & 5.0.1
 
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