Another way can encode an array into a string and decode it back to an array?

Question

Does anyone know if there is any other way (without using json_encode and json_decode) to encode the array into a string and then decode it back to a string? I remember that there is another call that does not contain ... (I can not remember the name :()

Answer 1

serialize and unserialize will do the trick.

Answer 2

You can use serialize () and unserialize () .