Question

This is simple, but I don’t know what to search to find my answer. Can someone please tell me in what format this data was inserted in the table ?

I want to read/insert/update it using PHP.

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Here is the text:

a:22:{s:12:”productimage”;s:82:”/wp-content/uploads/products_img/bla.jpg”;s:13:”productimage1″;s:0:””;s:13:”productimage2″;s:0:””;s:13:”productimage3″;s:0:””;s:13:”productimage4″;s:0:””;s:13:”productimage5″;s:0:””;s:13:”productimage6″;s:0:””;s:5:”price”;s:2:”12″;s:12:”spPrdLstDate”;s:10:”2011-11-10″;s:12:”specialprice”;s:2:”11″;s:6:”weight”;s:1:”2″;s:9:”istaxable”;s:0:””;s:4:”size”;s:5:”15,16″;s:5:”color”;s:3:”roz”;s:10:”size_stock”;s:4:”,2,3″;s:11:”color_stock”;s:2:”,1″;s:19:”is_check_outofstock”;s:2:”on”;s:9:”initstock”;s:2:”11″;s:8:”minstock”;s:1:”0″;s:11:”isshowstock”;s:2:”on”;s:14:”affiliate_link”;s:0:””;s:8:”posttype”;s:7:”product”;}

Answer 1

This is an serialized array, you can unserialize it to convert it back to the array type, and then serialize it back to string.

There is obviously a lot of debate on this being json or serialized data, but the length indicators for the upcoming string next to : clearly indicate a serialization.

$aArray = unserialize($sContents);
$sContents = serialize($aArray);