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Wildhoney · 07-15-2009, 01:48 AM

It's basically the representation of an array as a string. Good for storing the contents of an array in a file, and then being able to rebuild it with ease.

Take the following as a good example. Here we're saving the array, and then reloading it. It will give us the array just how we had it when we created it initially.

php Code:

function TalkPHP_Array_Save($aMyArray)
{
    $szSerialize = serialize($aMyArray);
    file_put_contents('myArray.txt', $szSerialize);
}

function TalkPHP_Array_Load()
{
    $szSerialize = file_get_contents('myArray.txt');
    return unserialize($szSerialize);
}

$aFruit = array('Orange', 'Apple', 'Banana');

/* Save and unset the array. */
TalkPHP_Array_Save($aFruit);
unset($aFruit);

/* Reload the array from a serialized string. */
$aFruit = TalkPHP_Array_Load();
print_r($aFruit);

07-15-2009, 01:48 AM	#2 (permalink)
Wildhoney La Vida es Sueño Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oldham Posts: 2,280 Thanks: 90	It's basically the representation of an array as a string. Good for storing the contents of an array in a file, and then being able to rebuild it with ease. Take the following as a good example. Here we're saving the array, and then reloading it. It will give us the array just how we had it when we created it initially. php Code: function TalkPHP_Array_Save($aMyArray) { $szSerialize = serialize($aMyArray); file_put_contents('myArray.txt', $szSerialize); } function TalkPHP_Array_Load() { $szSerialize = file_get_contents('myArray.txt'); return unserialize($szSerialize); } $aFruit = array('Orange', 'Apple', 'Banana'); /* Save and unset the array. / TalkPHP_Array_Save($aFruit); unset($aFruit); / Reload the array from a serialized string. */ $aFruit = TalkPHP_Array_Load(); print_r($aFruit); __________________ The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out.