What format is this?

Question

This is simple, but I don\'t know what to search to find my answer. Can someone please tell me in what format this data was inserted in the table ?

I want to read/inser

Answer 1

It's a serialized array you can deserialize it with http://www.php.net/manual/de/function.unserialize.php

Answer 2

That looks like Json, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON and http://www.json.org/

Answer 3

This is an serialized array, you can unserialize it to convert it back to the array type, and then serialize it back to string.

There is obviously a lot of debate on this being json or serialized data, but the length indicators for the upcoming string next to : clearly indicate a serialization.

$aArray = unserialize($sContents);
$sContents = serialize($aArray);