In a Project i had to save serialized arrays in a MYSQL Database, when i used that i got a Error Message for no reason (Error at offset XX of XX bytes in...). I wrote this little functions to fix that issue. (I dont recommend to save serialized Arrays in Databases )

function save_serialize($ARR) {
 return base64_encode(serialize($ARR));      
}
 
function save_unserialize($STR) {
 return unserialize(base64_decode($STR));      
}