civicrm zapier extension error saving zap

"critical error on this website" when trying to publish a zap that connects civicrm to google workspace to add a contact to a group.

The zap is not published due to the critical error (assumption).

The failure occurs in the civicrm zapier extension in ./ext/zapier/CRM/Zapier/Utils.php at line 36 in function saveHookURL.

The failing line of code is:

$zapHooks[$

trigger] = $url;

At that point $trigger is "membership_created".

However $zapHooks does not appear to be an array or an object: a:2:{s:14:"create_contact";s:82:"https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/standard/21541005/e0a4de1301c94439b804477f2377657a/";s:18:"update_participant";s:0:"";}

It is simply a string, and you cannot add a key value to it as attempted in that failing line of code.

The string is the result of $zapHooks = self::getZapHooks(); which returns self::unserialize_recursive(Civi::settings()->get('zapierHooks'));

The Civi:settings()->get('zapierHooks') returns: s:151:"a:2:{s:14:"create_contact";s:82:"https://hooks.zapier.com/hooks/standard/21541005/e0a4de1301c94439b804477f2377657a/";s:18:"update_participant";s:0:"";}";

At this point there are no registered zapierHooks.

We are in the midst of a 2 week trial at Zapier and would like to have a proof of concept before the trial ends.

Thanks, John Gotts webkeeper@npym.org

Hack work-around, due to unserialize unable to handle the original serialized string if (preg_match('#(^s:\d+:)"#',

$val,$

match)) {

$x = strlen($

match[1]);

$val = substr($

val,

$x+1,strlen($

val)-$x-2); } Then the next line works as expected, and an array results. And, the zapHook was added...

$ret = unserialize($

val);