> we ended up using pack() and unpack() to store stuff that should have been in an array because it would grow to 100's of megs using PHP's array() and using a

> we ended up using pack() and unpack() to store stuff that should have been in an array because it would grow to 100's of megs using PHP's array() and using a binary structure it stays under 10 megs. How many items were you storing / how big was the data in each item?