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honeycombdesign
Member
I have a form where user can list their children and their age in a 2 column list.

Name | Age

I use the list un advance fields.

Now once these are entered in to a User Meta Field called our_children.

When I try to retrieve the data I see something like this:
a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:4:"Name";s:6:"Elisha";s:3:"Age";s:2:"13";}}

I call the field using:
$our_children = get_user_meta ($user_id,"our_children");

How can I display this value so that I can get the name and age of children again.

I have tried:
```
foreach ( $our_children as $children ) {
echo '<tr><td>'. $our_children -> Name .'</td><td>'. $children -> Age .'</td></tr>';
	    }
```
but it doesn't show anything.

Thanks for your help.
Posted 11 years ago on Monday May 27, 2013 | Permalink
David Peralty

What you have is a serialized array, and you'll have to unserialize it before you can use it properly. Have a look at the following PHP.net information page - http://php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php

Posted 11 years ago on Monday May 27, 2013 | Permalink
honeycombdesign
Member

Thanks that really helped.

Posted 11 years ago on Monday May 27, 2013 | Permalink

Another trouble I am encountering is:
Do you know how I can split this?

the entry in the user meta is

[who_i_am] => Array ( [0] => I home educate my children or someone else’s (registered or enrolled),I run a business that benefits home education families and I would like to list it in the Member Directory and Service Guide )

tried this but it is not working

$i_am = explode(",", $who_i_am);
		     	?>
		     	   	<li><?php echo $i_am; ?></li>
		     	<?php

I would like the output to be separate lines.

Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday May 28, 2013 | Permalink

David Peralty
I am no expert PHP programmer, but shouldn't it be:
```
$i_am = explode(",", $who_i_am[0]);
```
Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday May 28, 2013 | Permalink
honeycombdesign
Member
I tired that
```
$i_am = explode(",", $who_i_am[0]);
		     	echo'	<li>'. $i_am .'></li>';
```
This is how I am getting the user meta
```
$who_i_am = get_user_meta ($user_id,"who_i_am");
```
All I get is an output that says "Array".
Posted 11 years ago on Tuesday May 28, 2013 | Permalink