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Jako
Jako

Reputation: 4901

Reading Wordpress Database Data

I'm not entirely sure what to call this, and I had a tough time searching for helpful results.

I have a wordpress plugin for a contact form that inputs the data into the database like this.

    a:37:{i:0;a:8:{s:2:"id";s:2:"20";s:4:"slug";s:11:"enfant-kind";
s:4:"name";s:13:"options_other";s:0:"";s:9:"parent_id";s:2:"21";s:5:"value";s:0:"";}}

This is only part of it and it's pretty long. I'm wondering how I can read this using PHP to break apart the form fields and inputs.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 74

Answers (1)

David
David

Reputation: 18281

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

That should turn that string into a object.

$data = unserialize($raw_data_from_db);

For anecdotal info, a:37 means an array thats 37 elements long, i:0 is for integer 0, s:'s are strings and their size. There's two more letters but as long as you are using serialize and unserialize, you should be good to go.

Upvotes: 1

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