Uncommon entry in database

  • RIMAX

    (@rimax)


    10 years, 5 months ago

    Hello,

    Although I am new here, web development is not something new to me. I mean, I don’t have much professional experience in the industry, but I certainly know my way around.

    It’s not the first time I see this, either: I am trying to edit some stuff on my site and it’s stored inside the database in a sequence like this:

    a:121:{s:14:”layout1_images”;s:7:”layout1″;s:11:”head_select”; etc.

    Even though I get the general idea of how it works and I figured out that for some reason the numbers must be equal to the number of characters in the string, I still have absolutely no idea what this is exactly and how it works.

    Can anyone shed some light on this for me? Sorry for what might be a noob question, but Google doesn’t help either. The punctuation in the code messes up the search and you can’t find anything useful.

    Thank you all so very much!

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  • Marios Alexandrou

    (@marios-alexandrou)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Some data is stored in the database as “serialized”. If you search for “wordpress serialized data” you’ll get more information on what’s going on along with pros and cons of this particular format.

    Thread Starter RIMAX

    (@rimax)

    10 years, 5 months ago

    Thanks a lot, now I can actually understand what’s going on in there.

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