>>if you use array data type in your database design and query your tables with
>>PHP you get a string which represents the array. It can look something like
>>this:
>>
>>[1:2]{{"Hallo", "Te\"st},"},{"Hallo", "Test"}}
>
>
> Do you still get that if you use the binary format? I would expect it to be
> easier to parse the binary format than this format which is really intended
> for humans and dump files.
>
> I think the right place to deal with this is down in the driver where it has
> all the information about the types and can request the format it wants from
> the database.
I _really_ want to have an array parsing function in PHP...I'll have to
check if they query in binary mode or not...
Chris