How does the datastore system work?

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Originally Posted by KirbyDE

To get your stuff use $myarray = unserialize($datastore['mykey']);
To write your stuff call build_datastore('mykey', serialize($myarray))

How would you store just a string instead of a whole array?
Then how would you call it back?

I tried

PHP Code:

$testvar="ted";
build_datastore('mytest', $testvar); 


Which successfully put "ted" into "mytest" in the datastore table. However to get it back I tried

PHP Code:

 $anothertestvar=$datastore[mytest]; 


as well as

PHP Code:

 $anothertestvar=$datastore[testvar]; 


and it didn't work.