Unserializes data only if it was serialized.

Parameters

$datastringrequired

Data that might be unserialized.

Return

More Information

Data might need to be serialized to allow it to be successfully stored and retrieved from a database in a form that PHP can understand.

Source

function maybe_unserialize( $data ) {
	if ( is_serialized( $data ) ) { // Don't attempt to unserialize data that wasn't serialized going in.
		return @unserialize( trim( $data ) );
	}

	return $data;
}

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