Hi, if you use array data type in your database design and query your tables with PHP you get a string which represents the array. It can look something like this: [1:2]{{"Hallo", "Te\"st},"},{"Hallo", "Test"}} It can even have another delimiter than "," if you change the type delimiter. Has anybody already written a function to parse this array into an php array structure? A simple explode doesn't work of course. The list offers a too simple explode(",", ereg_replace("{[-]}", $string)). this works only with one level and numeric types. Has anybody already written a recursive function to parse the array string? kind regards, Janning