Question

all wordpress data is stored in a database (for example mysql)… but, wordpress also stores some data fields in own database format like this:

a:1:{s:12:"header_image";s:49:"http://abcd1.de/files/2010/09/Laptop-Zuebhoer.jpg";}

(this data is stored in mysql as a text field)
its easy to see that “a” is the amount, “s” is the string length… sometimes there is also an “i” for index..

OK, my question: is this something wordpress specific? this looks a little bit like json.. What is the name of this thing 🙂 ?

Thanks.

Answer 1

It’s the output from PHP’s serialize function.