serialize() - how much values can I put inside?

[ThorstenA]

Is there a limit of 32 / 64 values for serialize because of 32/64bit processor?

. (http://php.net/ref.bc)

[Eikinskjaldi]

Is there a limit of 32 / 64 values for serialize because of 32/64bit processor?

. (http://php.net/ref.bc)

LOL 2^32 maybe.

[ThorstenA]

Example: I want to make a list of 5.000 things to buy. User can pick out some things. So I can only have 32 things in this list, right?

[Eikinskjaldi]

Example: I want to make a list of 5.000 things to buy. User can pick out some things. So I can only have 32 things in this list, right?

no, like I said. 2^32. Thats 1 billion things, give or take.

Serialisation is just a way of turning a program object into a string, it can be as long or as big as any string, which will depend on what field type you are using, but is going to care alot more about the overall size of the field than the number of items you serialized.

[ThorstenA]

32 items rule only applies if I want to search through these items, right?

[Eikinskjaldi]

32 items rule only applies if I want to search through these items, right?

I'd have said you were trolling, but you have a post history here. It's very confusing.

No, the 32 items rule never comes into effect. It's 2 to the power of 32.

[ThorstenA]

Yep, that is correct.

Thank you very much for your posts, they helped me alot!

[Antivirus]

32 comes into play with regards to bitwise I think

[ThorstenA]

I'd have said you were trolling, but you have a post history here. It's very confusing.

No, the 32 items rule never comes into effect. It's 2 to the power of 32.
32 comes into play with regards to bitwise I think
vbulletin developers told me on vb.com that there's a limit of only having 32 profile field elements within one checkbox profile field because of php limit of 32bit system. I made up a suggestion to increase allowed elements on checkboxes profile field.

[Eikinskjaldi]

vbulletin developers told me on vb.com that there's a limit of only having 32 profile field elements within one checkbox profile field because of php limit of 32bit system. I made up a suggestion to increase allowed elements on checkboxes profile field.

"profile field elements within one checkbox profile field"

I have no idea what this means, so cannot comment with any certainty, but I have never heard of any aspect of 32 bit architecture directly translating into a 32 item limit for any coding object in any coding language, so I think you were given some bad advice.

My advice would be to try it out, see what happens.

[Adrian Schneider]

They meant a bitfield, which is bunch of on/offs (bits) stored as a single integer value.

Each field would represent a bit, so the maximum number of on/offs in it would be about 32, because that would be translate to a very large decimal number.