[thelist] PHP help please- parsing text to variables
Kelly Hallman
khallman at wrack.org
Thu Mar 20 01:34:31 CST 2003
On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Todd wrote:
> Awesome! Thanks Kelly!!!
Guess it worked for you...so, I assume this is just curiosity:
> Question- what is this a:18? when I opened the text I got.
> 'a:18:{s:5:"month";s:12:"August,2003";s:7:"header1";s:15:
> "testttestsetswe";s:5:"body1";' Is it 18 strings in the array?
Yeah, it's something like that, though I haven't spent any time trying to
decypher the exact format (and it isn't described in PHP docs I've seen).
The benefit of using functions to store/restore the data is that it
doesn't really matter what the underlying method is.
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Kelly Hallman
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