Help in serializing from OScommerce

[greg]

I use OScommerce, and the following code is the shopping cart content of a customer.
What code should I need to convert this to normal view and display in a page.
I really appreciate anyone's help.
greg





O:12:"shoppingcart":7:{s:8:"contents";a:1:{i:1024;
a:2:{s:3:"qty";s:2: "72";s:11:"custom_data";
a:7:{s:10:"item_color";a:2:{s:10:"color_name";s:6:"Purple"
;s:10 :"color_code";s:7:"#912690";}
s:7:"comment";s:0:"";s:12:"imprint_area"
;a:1:{i:3458;a:5:{s:7:"icolors";a:1:{i:0;s:14:
"Purple:#a65692";}s:6:"colors";a:1:{s:6:"Purple";s:7
:"#a65692";}s:5:"lines";a:1:{i:1;a:
7:{s:4:"text";s:16:"SECOND LINE";s:9:"
font_size";s:2:"10";s:11:"font_family";s:5:
"Arial";s:4:"bold";s:1:"0";s:7:"italics";
s:1:"0";s:5:"align";s:4:"left";s:10:"font_color";a:2:{s:10:"
color_name";s:6:"Purple";s:10:"color_code";s:
7:"#a65692";}}}s:4:"name";s:20:
"Primary Imprint Area";s:5:"image";s:32

[hitman6003]

Well, to start, please edit your post and remove that incredibly long string from it so that we dont' have to scroll a mile to the right to view your post.

Use serialize to change your string back into an array, then you can display it back however you want.

[greg]

Hello hitman6003,
Oh my god! - Sorry for that long walk, it wasn't my intention.

I appreciate your help, but can you elaborate a little bid for me please. The point is that I don't go so deep in php, so in other words, I'm starting. I need help please.
thanks

[hitman6003]

That string is a representation of an array. It's obtained by using the function serialize (http://www.php.net/serialize) on an array. In order to return it to it's original form, which is a very usable array, you will want to use unserialize (http://www.php.net/unserialize).

From there, you can loop through it and produce a table, or select out only certain elements for a table, or what ever you want to do with it.