when unserializing classes:

if the class is not known the standard class (no methods) will be used.
if the class is known - the created object will functional again!

2 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 534a3a0344..ebb2cdf286 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ PHP 4.0 CHANGE LOG                                                    ChangeLog
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 ?? ?? 1999, Version 4.0 Beta 3
-- Made serialize/unserialize work on classes & speedups. CAUTION: when 
-  unserializing the class to be unserialized needs to be known! (Thies)
+- Made serialize/unserialize work on classes. If the class is known at 
+  unserialize() time, you'll get back a fully working object! (Thies)
 - Reworked preg_* functions according to the new PCRE API, which also made
   them behave much more like Perl ones (Andrey)
 - Made it possible to specify external location of PCRE library (Andrey)
diff --git a/ext/standard/var.c b/ext/standard/var.c
index 58bc8da3f6..dd291211ba 100644
--- a/ext/standard/var.c
+++ b/ext/standard/var.c
@@ -372,7 +372,8 @@ int php3api_var_unserialize(pval **rval, const char **p, const char *max)
 				(*p) += i;
 
 				if (zend_hash_find(EG(class_table), class_name, i+1, (void **) &ce)==FAILURE) {
-					php_error(E_WARNING, "Cannot instanciate non-existant class:  %s", class_name);
+					php_error(E_NOTICE, "Unserializing non-existant class: %s! No methods will be available!", class_name);
+					ce = &zend_standard_class_def;
 				}
 
 				efree(class_name);