Not a single field, but there's several methods of storing trees of
information, which is what an array is. Here's one:
Nested Array storage table:
ArrayID (int, autonumber)
keyname (text)
parent (int)
data (bigtext or whatever would be appropriate for the data you're storing)
For an array like this:
array('one'=>1, 'two'=>array('three'=>3, 'four'=>4))
the table would store these rows:
1, 'one', 0, 1
2, 'two', 0, 2
3, 'three', 2, 3
4, 'four', 2, 4
You can use a recursive function to restore the array, unless you
require the granular functionality this type of process would give you
such as sorting and filtering and statistics gathering.
-Micah
However, I think in the long run, you'd be better off serializing the data.
-Micah
On 03/04/2007 02:15 PM, Sancar Saran wrote:
On Sunday 04 March 2007 23:04, Sancar Saran wrote:
Hi,
I want to know is there any db server around there for store php arrays
natively.
Regards
Sancar
Thanks for responses, it seems I have to give more info about situation.
In my current project, we had tons of arrays. They are very deep and
unpredictable nested arrays.
Currently we are using serialize/unserialize and it seems it comes with own
cpu cost. Xdebug shows some serializing cost blips. Sure it was not SO BIG
deal (for now of course).
My db expertise covers a bit mysql and mysql does not have any array type
field (enum just so simple).
I just want to know is there any way to keep array data type natively in a sql
field.
Regards.
Sancar
