Question

Here’s my array:

array(2) {
  [0]=>
  string(4) "0002"
  [1]=>
  string(4) "0001"
}

It’s passed form javascript to my php to save in a database.

Before saving to the database I:

$myArray = serialize($post['myArray']);

But in my database (mysql) I get this:

a:2:{i:0;s:4:"0002";i:1;s:4:"0001";}

Any ideas whats going wrong?

Also a var dump before database submission gives:

string(36) "a:2:{i:0;s:4:"0002";i:1;s:4:"0001";}"

Answer 1

You serializing an array which result as formated string. When You retrive your data back from DB, You have to convert this string back into array using unserialize function.

http://cz.php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php