Saved block options have no effect on PHP 5.2.1[23]

[lildude]

Saved block options have no effect.

The options are successfully saved to the database, but they're not pulled back in correctly by the block config form or the action_block_content_*() methods provided by the plugins.

Several plugins which use blocks that provide configuration options for the the blocks don't seem to be able to actually use these options. I've tested this with the "popular_posts" and "twitter" plugins.

The problem seems to be $this->data is empty when we get to #L138, called on #L31

Marking this as a blocker as it's a feature we're pushing for 0.7.

[jhominal]

I believe I encountered that exact problem when developing a simple plugin using blocks;  https://habariproject.org/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=165&page=1#Item_0

I believe that it is a PHP bug with the unserialize function - the following bug may be related to it (I thought it was, but now I have reread it and it may not be):
 http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=48387

I avoided that bug by switching to PHP 5.3.2 - that function is a quite complex piece of work, so I don't know how we can fix it for Habari.

[lildude]

Looks like this may be something specific to the version of PHP.

PHP 5.2.12 fails. PHP 5.2.9 and PHP 5.3.2 work.

[mikelietz]

It also fails in 5.2.13.

[mikelietz]

based on BigJibby's suggestion - needs more testing.

[lildude]

I can confirm the patch fixes the problem for me.

[mikelietz]

Fixed in r4345.