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Converting string / array with php

I am manually reading database entries from a plugin (eventscalendar wordpress). custom fields / custom fields are stored in the database. excuse my ignorance - but I am having trouble binding the format in which the data is stored:

a:1:{s:3:"key";s:6:"extern";}

so I end up needing the value s: 6: "" in a simple variable. say $ key = "extern"

any quick solutions? thanks, sign

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Take a look at unserialize to get it back into an array: http://php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php



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This is a serialized array - notice at a

the beginning. He also works with objects.

It is created with PHP serialize

and converted back to the correct array / object with unserialize

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It serves a similar purpose for the format JSON

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