Question

I have an array that looks something like this

array( 'cars' => 10, 'trucks' => 20, 'computers' => 50 );

Now I want to store the field and value pairs in a database field. I also want to be able to retrieve it so the array will be in the same form as it was.

Answer 1

That’s what serialize() is for

Slightly More Elaborated

The serialize() function gets (almost) any type of value as an arguments, and outputs a storable string.

When you want to retrieve the value from the database, you use unserialize()