is it possible to store an array in memcached

[Jeffrey Kacmarcik]

no need to serialize it if you're using the pecl-memcache client.  It 
handles all of that for you -- associative arrays, objects, just about 
anything you throw at it that's not a resource.

-Jeffrey


mike wrote:
> This is basically very basic PHP stuff. :) But yes, you can.
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> I'm not sure if you even have to serialize it first. Might depend on
> the module you use.You can try without first. But otherwise, just
> serialize it and it will be a string that you can store. Then
> unserialize after you retrieve it.
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> On 1/18/07, Alan Jay <alanj_sw3 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I am doing some tests with the idea to use Memcached to reduce the 
>> load on
>> HTML servers.  We want to cache articles which are held in an array
>> ($article_row) which contains a number of elements 
>> $article_row[title] etc I
>> have been looking to see if there is syntax to store the entire array in
>> memcache so that once brought out the array can be manipulated (as it is
>> currently) and displayed as required.
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>> All suggestions gratefully received.
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>> Regards
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>> Alan Jay
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Jeffrey Kacmarcik
Systems Programmer, Law School
University of Wisconsin - Madison
jrkacmar at wisc.edu