From 6eb0d3c5bf855b3a46ada7da2073cb9189bc2047 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: mjollnir_ <mjollnir_>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:26:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]  MDL-15741: workaround for annoying null byte php bug (base
 64 decode eventdata before storing it in the database, and unencode it before
 processing)

---
 lib/eventslib.php | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/eventslib.php b/lib/eventslib.php
index f1f9aed444..9a8e8740fa 100755
--- a/lib/eventslib.php
+++ b/lib/eventslib.php
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ function events_process_queued_handler($qhandler) {
 
     // call the function specified by the handler
     $errormessage = 'Unknown error';
-    if (events_dispatch($handler, unserialize($event->eventdata), $errormessage)) {
+    if (events_dispatch($handler, unserialize(base64_decode($event->eventdata)), $errormessage)) {
         //everything ok
         events_dequeue($qhandler);
         return true;
@@ -456,7 +456,7 @@ function events_trigger($eventname, $eventdata) {
             if ($event === false) {
                 $event = new object();
                 $event->userid      = $USER->id;
-                $event->eventdata   = serialize($eventdata);
+                $event->eventdata   = base64_encode(serialize($eventdata));
                 $event->timecreated = time();
                 if (debugging()) {
                     $dump = '';
-- 
2.39.5