other way can encode array into string and decode it back to array?

Question

Does anyone know there have any other way that (by not using json_encode and json_decode) to encode an array into string then decode it back into string? I remember there have another call unlis...(cannot really remember the name :( )

Answer 1

You could use serialize() and unserialize().

Answer 2

serialize and unserialize will do the trick.