[geeklog-devel] Strange storage of strings (and other data) in gl_conf_values

Aaron Blankstein blanks at mit.edu
Mon Mar 3 14:29:37 EST 2008


Yep, that was the idea.

On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 2:10 PM, Dirk Haun <dirk at haun-online.de> wrote:


> Blank, Jessica wrote:

>

> >In gl_conf_values, strings

> >aren't stored as 'foo', they're stored like 's:3:"foo";', where 3 is the

> >length of the string 'foo'.

>

> That's PHP's serialisation format. I guess the motivation was that the

> db field can contain things other than strings and so it adds a little

> type-safeness.

>

> Correct, Aaron?

>

> bye, Dirk

>

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