Title: Why this serialized data doesn’t work?
Last modified: June 23, 2017

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# Why this serialized data doesn’t work?

 *  Resolved [toooni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toooni/)
 * (@toooni)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-this-serialized-data-doesnt-work/)
 * Whats wrong with the following serialized array? Why does it show me only 1 column
   named “no data” when i’m creating a table with this data?
 * a:3:{i:0;a:3:{s:8:”dinotype”;s:4:”Allo”;s:9:”baselevel”;s:3:”172″;s:9:”fulllevel”;
   s:3:”172″;}i:1;a:3:{s:8:”dinotype”;s:4:”Allo”;s:9:”baselevel”;s:2:”41″;s:9:”fulllevel”;
   s:2:”49″;}i:2;a:3:{s:8:”dinotype”;s:4:”Allo”;s:9:”baselevel”;s:3:”178″;s:9:”fulllevel”;
   s:3:”178″;}}

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 *  Thread Starter [toooni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toooni/)
 * (@toooni)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-this-serialized-data-doesnt-work/#post-9255030)
 * Can be closed. Its simply not possible to do a really dynamic table with your
   plugin.
 * I need the following which is simply not possible:
 * 1. php script which generates the json output based on some user meta-data. (
   Done).
    2. I want to include this script for the datatable 3. 2nd isn’t possible
   because the script isn’t runned in user-context when implemented in the datatable.
   The dynamic data based on the user-meta can’t be generated by the script when
   executed by datatables.
 * So you can’t: Create a table dynamically based on some datas of the logged in
   user.
 * Tryed things:
    – Adding variables dynamically to the shortcode which is implemented
   in a site. –> Doesn’t work…shortcode is somehow executed before the php code 
   in the site?!
 * – Creating table based on serialized array –> Doesn’t work. The script isn’t 
   executed in the user-context.
 * – Creating table based on a dynamic json output of a php script –> Doesn’t work,
   the script isn’t called in the user-context and therefore i can’t generate the
   data there.
 *  Plugin Author [wpDataTables](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpdatatables/)
 * (@wpdatatables)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-this-serialized-data-doesnt-work/#post-9259364)
 * Hi there,
 * It is possible, not with the lite version though.
    One option would be to use
   the %CURRENT_USER_ID% placeholder, another one would be to use filters and hooks
   that are built into the plugin.
 * As for the initial question – please make sure that the file that returns serialized
   PHP array also returns a 200 HTTP code (it might be necessary to call header(“
   HTTP/1.1 200 OK”); in the file).
 *  Thread Starter [toooni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toooni/)
 * (@toooni)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-this-serialized-data-doesnt-work/#post-9265814)
 * Thanks for your answer. Unfortunately not what im looking for.
 * You can close this thread, I will create a new one with a more specific question.

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 * Last reply from: [toooni](https://wordpress.org/support/users/toooni/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-this-serialized-data-doesnt-work/#post-9265814)
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