just trying to add some setting for the admin in a database entry.
i've saved;
array('aviva'=>'aviva','teacher'=>'teacher');
into the field 'fullPara' but can't seem to get it back into an array? Just spits it out as a string and i've tried eval but not sure where to go from here?
echo $userTypes['fullPara']; // spits out array('aviva'=>'aviva','teacher'=>'teacher');
any pointers welcome!
best, Dan
You want to look into the serialize() and unserialize() functions PHP offers.
Here is an example:
$array = array('1', '3', '4');
$s_array = serialize($array);
// insert that into the db.
// later on when fetching.
$array = unserialize($array_from_db);
print_r($array); // viola
EDIT
I do NOT recommend this but here is how you would convert it to an array using eval:
eval("\$array = " . $data_from_Db);
print_r($array);
Should get you what you were after.
eval -- and then you're opening yourself up to all kinds of crap.
If you already have a string of "array('aviva'=>'aviva','teacher'=>'teacher'); " and you wish to turn it into an array, this should work...
$str = "array('aviva'=>'aviva','teacher'=>'teacher');";
eval("\$foo = $str");
var_dump($foo);
It's really not the best way of doing it though.
