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PHP Arrays not Serialized by Default #6137

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claytondaley opened this issue Sep 6, 2014 · 8 comments
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PHP Arrays not Serialized by Default #6137

claytondaley opened this issue Sep 6, 2014 · 8 comments
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Bug For errors / faults / flaws / inconsistencies etc. Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical.
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@claytondaley
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Calls to SitesManager.getSitesIdFromSiteUrl&format=PHP&... are returning data structured like

array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'idsite' => '4',
  ),
)

instead of serialized data (e.g. SitesManager.getJavascriptTag&format=PHP&...):

s:825:"<!-- Piwik -->
<script type="text/javascript">
  var _paq = _paq || [];
  _paq.push(['trackPageView']);
  _paq.push(['enableLinkTracking']);
  (function() {
    var u=(("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https" : "http") + "://piwik.daleycrm.com/";
    _paq.push(['setTrackerUrl', u+'piwik.php']);
    _paq.push(['setSiteId', 4]);
    var d=document, g=d.createElement('script'), s=d.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; g.type='text/javascript';
    g.defer=true; g.async=true; g.src=u+'piwik.js'; s.parentNode.insertBefore(g,s);
  })();
</script>
<noscript><p><img src="http://piwik.daleycrm.com/piwik.php?idsite=4" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript>
<!-- End Piwik Code -->
";

This was discovered while "debugging" an issue in WP-Piwik but I confirmed the root cause was Piwik by pasting API calls directly into the browser. I assume this is an unintended change since the new response cannot be unserialized by PHP code.
@claytondaley claytondaley changed the title PHP Formatted Responses PHP Formatted Responses in SitesManager not Serialized Sep 6, 2014
@claytondaley claytondaley changed the title PHP Formatted Responses in SitesManager not Serialized PHP Formatted Responses not Serialized Sep 6, 2014
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I'm getting the same format from SitesManager.getSitesWithAtLeastViewAccess:

array (
  0 => 
  array (
    'idsite' => '4',
    'name' => 'DaleyKlippings',
    'main_url' => 'http://claytondaley.com',
    'ts_created' => '2013-04-05 22:05:58',
    'ecommerce' => '0',
    'sitesearch' => '1',
    'sitesearch_keyword_parameters' => '',
    'sitesearch_category_parameters' => '',
    'timezone' => 'America/New_York',
    'currency' => 'USD',
    'excluded_ips' => '',
    'excluded_parameters' => '',
    'excluded_user_agents' => '',
    'group' => '',
    'type' => 'website',
    'keep_url_fragment' => '0',
  ),
)

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... the root cause is that the new Php Renderer module does not serialize Arrays by default:

https://github.com/piwik/piwik/blob/master/plugins/API/Renderer/Php.php#L50

@claytondaley claytondaley changed the title PHP Formatted Responses not Serialized PHP Arrays not Serialized by Default Sep 7, 2014
claytondaley added a commit to claytondaley/piwik that referenced this issue Sep 7, 2014
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Fixes matomo-org#6137
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@claytondaley claytondaley mentioned this issue Sep 7, 2014
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@mattab mattab added the Bug For errors / faults / flaws / inconsistencies etc. label Sep 8, 2014
@mattab mattab added this to the Piwik 2.8.0 milestone Sep 8, 2014
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mattab commented Sep 8, 2014

@claytondaley thanks for the report! Do you think it's a regression and that it used to return serialized data in an older Piwik version?

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I honestly can't say. For sure the previous version returned serialized data by default and the contributor who refactored this code made the same change in another part of the new file. @tsteur did the refactor and might know off hand.

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ham1 commented Sep 10, 2014

This seems to fix the issue with WP-Piwik however it causes errors on my Visitor Map section inside Piwik (see below). Could this be a problem with the visitor map?

e.g. Warning: Illegal string offset 'metrics' in /var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php on line 226 

Backtrace -->

#0 Piwik\Error::errorHandler(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:226]
#1 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->getMetrics(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:89]
#2 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->visitorMap(...) called at [:]
#3 call_user_func_array(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:577]
#4 Piwik\FrontController->doDispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:86]
#5 Piwik\FrontController->dispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/dispatch.php:34]
#6 require_once(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/index.php:46]


There is an error. Please report the message (Piwik 2.6.1) and full backtrace in the Piwik forums (please do a Search first as it might have been reported already!).

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php on line 226 

Backtrace -->

#0 Piwik\Error::errorHandler(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:226]
#1 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->getMetrics(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:89]
#2 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->visitorMap(...) called at [:]
#3 call_user_func_array(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:577]
#4 Piwik\FrontController->doDispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:86]
#5 Piwik\FrontController->dispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/dispatch.php:34]
#6 require_once(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/index.php:46]


There is an error. Please report the message (Piwik 2.6.1) and full backtrace in the Piwik forums (please do a Search first as it might have been reported already!).

Warning: Illegal string offset 'processedMetrics' in /var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php on line 231 

Backtrace -->

#0 Piwik\Error::errorHandler(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:231]
#1 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->getMetrics(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:89]
#2 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->visitorMap(...) called at [:]
#3 call_user_func_array(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:577]
#4 Piwik\FrontController->doDispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:86]
#5 Piwik\FrontController->dispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/dispatch.php:34]
#6 require_once(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/index.php:46]


There is an error. Please report the message (Piwik 2.6.1) and full backtrace in the Piwik forums (please do a Search first as it might have been reported already!).

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php on line 231 

Backtrace -->

#0 Piwik\Error::errorHandler(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:231]
#1 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->getMetrics(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/plugins/UserCountryMap/Controller.php:89]
#2 Piwik\Plugins\UserCountryMap\Controller->visitorMap(...) called at [:]
#3 call_user_func_array(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:577]
#4 Piwik\FrontController->doDispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/FrontController.php:86]
#5 Piwik\FrontController->dispatch(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/core/dispatch.php:34]
#6 require_once(...) called at [/var/www/xxx/index.php:46]
```.

@claytondaley
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As noted in the patch, I have fixed UserCountryMap. I also cited the section of the documentation that leads me to believe that the patch (and not the current state) produces the expected behavior.

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This is definitely a regression, and has the nasty side-effect of compelling WP-Piwik to create spurious new site records.

@mattab mattab added the Major Indicates the severity or impact or benefit of an issue is much higher than normal but not critical. label Sep 15, 2014
mattab added a commit that referenced this issue Sep 16, 2014
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refs #6137 #6155 adding unit test showcasing rendering bug on multi d…
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mattab commented Sep 16, 2014

Thanks for the report. I've added some test for this particular case so it should not regress again. feel free to report any other issue, we can fix them until 2.7.0 release due next week.

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