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

[Aaron Blankstein]

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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