Edit Array and Store in MySQL

[eangulus]

Help Please:

I have a serialised array as a value in a MySQL table.

I want to be able to pull that out into a textarea for editing and then converted back to an array (serialised) and restored in the Table.

I am having trouble in converting to an editable form and back again.

Can anyone help?

[eangulus]

Is there anyone with some hints at least?

[bbaassiri]

can you provide more detail as in code, data structure etc,

when you say serialize array, what exactly do you mean

[eangulus]

What is there to be clearer about?

You get an array and do a serialize() to it for storage. You unserialize it when you read it so you get an array back but I then need to make that array a readable and editable string for a textarea sectio in a form.

Then once edited it recreates thee array and serialise() it for storage again.

I need to know what needs to be done to get it into a editable format.

[bbaassiri]

using simple html?

<textarea name='fieldname'><?php echo $content; ?></textarea>

have a look at the user notesabout serialize

[eangulus]

Some people are totallly ignorant arnt they.

I want the ARRAY in an EDITABLE FORM.

So I can edit it in the textarea. Submit form and the form rebuilds the array ready for serialize().

Thought that from what I said bewfore it was clear I understood the part about serializing.

[harlowhair]

use implode on the array to convert it into a string and then explode it back to an array before serializing?

Other than that, You could really do with putting some more detials cos I don't really understand your problem

[bbaassiri]

why don't you post the code, i think that might help a bit more