Posted by Jim Michaels on 02/12/06 04:39

serialize() puts out binary data. VARCHAR and TEXT are made for character
data. use BLOB(), TINYBLOB, or MEDIUMBLOB.

"NC" <nc@iname.com> wrote in message
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> Gav wrote:
>>
>> If you had a class user with variables id, name, password. How
>> would you save this object or its variable date to a MySQL
>> database?
>
> By using serialize($your_object) and writing the result into a TEXT or
> VARCHAR field.
>
>> Are there any tutorials that you can recommend on this subject?
>
> The Manual is always a good place to start:
>
> http://www.php.net/serialize
>
> Cheers,
> NC
>

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