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Offline Doomed

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SQL: table from string in row?
« on: January 15, 2019, 12:49:34 AM »


In MySQL, is there a way to retrieve a table of information (like in the "Classes" column) rather than just a string or integer? It gets stored as a string, I just dont know of any gmod functions that can directly convert a string to a table. thanks
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Re: SQL: table from string in row?
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2019, 06:58:41 AM »
That's because MySQL doesn't store data as tables... only has strings or numbers.

You can use the following lua functions to serialize your tables and store/read them from MySQL:

http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/TableToJSON
http://wiki.garrysmod.com/page/util/JSONToTable