PHP unserialize Examples Edit Cheat Sheet

When you want to store PHP data structures in a database or network request you use serialize/unserialize to convert and restore the data. Below is an example:

<?php
$data_string = serialize(array(1, 'a string', 'another string'));
echo $data_string . '\n';

$data = unserialize($data_string);
var_dump($data);
?>

Test unserialize online using a site like unserialize.com