Title: Data Store structure
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Data Store structure

 *  Resolved [max2320](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max2320/)
 * (@max2320)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-store-structure/)
 * Hi there,
    Someone know how to explain why the data is stored in this format?
 *     ```
       a:5:{
         s:5:"width";i:1920;
         s:6:"height";i:1080;
         s:4:"file";s:19:"2016/08/pokemin.png";
         s:5:"sizes";a:5:{
           s:9:"thumbnail";a:4:{
             s:4:"file";s:19:"pokemin-150x150.png";
             s:5:"width";i:150;
             s:6:"height";i:150;
             s:9:"mime-type";s:9:"image/png";
           }
           s:6:"medium";a:4:{
             s:4:"file";s:19:"pokemin-300x169.png";
             s:5:"width";i:300;
             s:6:"height";i:169;
             s:9:"mime-type";s:9:"image/png";
           }
           s:12:"medium_large";a:4:{
             s:4:"file";s:19:"pokemin-768x432.png";
             s:5:"width";i:768;
             s:6:"height";i:432;
             s:9:"mime-type";s:9:"image/png";
           }
           s:5:"large";a:4:{
             s:4:"file";s:20:"pokemin-1024x576.png";
             s:5:"width";i:1024;
             s:6:"height";i:576;
             s:9:"mime-type";s:9:"image/png";
           }
           s:13:"wpbs-featured";a:4:{
             s:4:"file";s:19:"pokemin-533x300.png";
             s:5:"width";i:533;
             s:6:"height";i:300;
             s:9:"mime-type";s:9:"image/png";
           }
         }
         s:10:"image_meta";a:12:{
           s:8:"aperture";s:1:"0";
           s:6:"credit";s:0:"";
           s:6:"camera";s:0:"";
           s:7:"caption";s:0:"";
           s:17:"created_timestamp";s:1:"0";
           s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";
           s:12:"focal_length";s:1:"0";
           s:3:"iso";s:1:"0";
           s:13:"shutter_speed";s:1:"0";
           s:5:"title";s:0:"";
           s:11:"orientation";s:1:"0";
           s:8:"keywords";a:0:{
   
           }
         }
       }
       ```
   
 * Tks.

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 *  Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
 * (@sterndata)
 * Volunteer Forum Moderator
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-store-structure/#post-7706069)
 * That’s serialized data.
 * [http://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php](http://php.net/manual/en/function.serialize.php)
   
   [https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-migrate-db-pro/doc/serialized-data/](https://deliciousbrains.com/wp-migrate-db-pro/doc/serialized-data/)
 * What are you trying to do with the data?
 *  Thread Starter [max2320](https://wordpress.org/support/users/max2320/)
 * (@max2320)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/data-store-structure/#post-7706219)
 * Thank you, Steve.
 * I’m working with a importation from a particular CMS to wordpress, when I came
   across this data, and I didn’t understand why all data was store in this format
   instead be store in JSON structure.
    Because to me this format sounds like a 
   bad way to store data.
 * Then, thank you for the help.

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