An efficient way to save an Array and its Keys to a database

Question

I am trying to save lots of variables to a database and it is getting ridiculous now. I am using PHP and MySQL.

Is there a way, I can get the array value and the arr

Answer 1

Serialize the data and write it to a single field in one table. Then to retrieve the data unserialize it and you are left with an array.

 Then write $serialized to database
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To retrieve

 First Get $serialized from database

$array = unserialize($serialized);
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