we ended up using pack() and unpack() to store stuff Out of interest, can you give a few more details of what you were storing, and how? I've seen serialise()

we ended up using pack() and unpack() to store stuff Out of interest, can you give a few more details of what you were storing, and how? I've seen serialise() used surprisingly often (WordPress comes to mind!), which is always going to be pretty verbose: http://uk.php.net/serialize http://uk.php.net/serialize