note 83415 deleted from function.unserialize by aharvey

Note Submitter: campbell at vertesi dot com ---- One thing to note - if you're storing your serialized string in a MySQL TEXT field, it will remove the {s and }s that make your string valid for unserialization. I almost killed myself figuring this out - I'm sure it's basic but I had to post my solution - encode the serialized string in base 64. $mood = array('angry','sad','happy'); $storable = base64_encode(serialize($mood)); then when you retrieve it from the database, you can access the string with $mood=base64_decode(unserialize($storable));