Re:array in db field -> actual array

thanks dobromir, unfortunately that doesnt seem to work ... although looking at the php manual you seem to be on the right track.. could the way the textfield is parsed & passed back affect the array? cheers! brendan Dobromir Velev wrote:

Hi, I think you can use the eval() function to execute the stored info. The code will look something like this $res=mysql_query(...) eval($row_from_query); If you want to change the name of the array you could use eval(str_replace("$array","$newarray",$row_from_query)); HTH Dobromir Velev -----Original Message----- From: brendan <brendan.gogarty@utas.edu.au> To: php-db@lists.php.net <php-db@lists.php.net> Date: Thursday, September 13, 2001 2:20 PM Subject: [PHP-DB] array in db field -> actual array

hi, i am currently scouring the web for a solution to this but thought i would try here as well .. i have a text field in a mysql database the textfield contains an array written out as //-------------------- $array[0][1]="one"; $array[0][2]="two"; $array[0][3]="thre"; $array[1][1]="four"; $array[2][1]="five"; //-------------------- now i need to extract this from the db .. simple and use it as an array for a function .. not as simple as i thought it would be ie $newarray =mysqlquery('etc','etc','etc') and $newarray should be $newarray[0][1]="one"; $newarray[0][2]="two"; $newarray[0][3]="thre"; $newarray[1][1]="four"; $newarray[2][1]="five"; elp? cheers brendan -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net