Am Dienstag, 16. August 2005 17:04 schrieb Greg Stark: > Janning Vygen <vygen@xxxxxx> writes: > > 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"}} > > Do you still get that if you use the binary format? I would expect it to be > easier to parse the binary format than this format which is really intended > for humans and dump files. What kind of "binary format" do you mean? anyway: In PHP you get it as a string and i wonder if anyone has written a small pasrer function for php to handle this string an convert it into an php array structure. kind regards, janning