Re: save $_GLOBALS to a database field

Ramiro Barrantes <ramiro@precisionbioassay.com> wrote: >Hello, > >I would like to record, on a database, the global variables $_POST and >$_SERVER for each action that the user does that involves a >modification of the database. I am just saving, say $_POST or >$_SERVER (and others), as a string and putting it in a field on the >database. > >However, when I try to get the info out of the database and access it >as an XML (using the DOMDocument library) it becomes a pain to handle >due to all the special characters (I think, as I haven't been able to >get it to work), for example: > >Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0 > >(I seem to need to replace all the "/"s) > >It's a pain, and I would like not to have to replace special characters >with preg_replace if possible. > >Any suggestions? I have been having a lot of trouble with this. > >Thanks in advance, > >Ramiro Why are you converting the arrays into xml at all? Serialise the data instead, xml is unnecessary here and will cause you problems as you've found. Thanks, Ash