NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NEVER use long varchar2 for < 4k or clob for longer does long still exist in oracle9 ???? i thought it is supposed to be left out ( as soon as possible ) to your question at first : why don't you try to overwrite the php session handling funktions? serialisation is done by them and you need just to save in db look here : http://www.phpbuilder.net/columns/ying20000602.php3 i always wanted to do that, but newer did... if you make it code snipplets are welcome :-] sebastian > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: infoz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 26. Juni 2001 12:42 > An: Michael Champagne; PHP General Mailing List > Betreff: Re: [PHP] Help with PHP/Oracle and serializing data > > > > If the data will be less than ~4K, use 'varchar2', otherwise > use 'long'. > > - Tim > http://www.phptemplates.org > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Champagne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "PHP General Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 2:42 PM > Subject: [PHP] Help with PHP/Oracle and serializing data > > > > I'm developing a web application and would like to be able > to store the > state > > of the application in an Oracle table by serializing a > bunch of variables > and > > storing them in the database. Has anyone done this? What > datatype would > be > > best to use here? I'm not serializing too much data now, but other > > applications that we do in the future may. Would this be a > place to use a > > CLOB or should I stick with varchar2? Thanks! > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]