Getting at the Customfields in the Events table

[vb_guru]

I am working on project where I am taking the events that members have entered via the Calendar interface and allowing other members to search for and return a results set that breaks up the customfields column in the events table.

For example, I have created custom fields for state, ZIP Code, store name plus a few others. Right now when I return the results sets all of the customfields are returned in one big chunk with the stuff I do not want (i:1s:10:"California". etc". ),

After writing the SQL, I have tried to unserialize the customfields and the put the individual customs fields in a row as a part of the results set. Like this:

 $customfield=unserialize($event['customfields']); 

<tr><td>$customfield[1]</td><td>$customfield[2]</td><td>$customfield[3]</td></tr>

However, I am not getting any results. Its like the it is not being unserialized. Any help would be appreciated.