On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:39:43AM -0400, Matt Babineau wrote: > Hi All- > > I don't think that this is possible but maybe through some custom > function perhaps? I am storing data in a database, and it is an Array > (in PHP) so I serialized it for storage. I want to be able to query that > data and be able to do something like WHERE thisField = 'john'. the > field 'thisField' though would need to be pointing to the first element > in the Array, which I don't think is possible. Has anyone run into this > before? Unless there's a really powerful overriding reason, the best solution is to have a seperate table for the array, with a foreign key that points back to the record in the original table. That will make retrieving data a lot easier; e.g. you can do a query with a join and "WHERE thisField = 'john'". Bob Hall -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
