{"id":792,"date":"2020-02-08T13:33:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T13:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/08\/magento-2-convert-array-data-into-serialize-format\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T15:01:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T09:31:43","slug":"magento-2-convert-array-data-into-serialize-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/magento-2-convert-array-data-into-serialize-format\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Convert Array Data Into Serialize Format In Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.adobe.com\/commerce\/docs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Serialization<\/a>&nbsp;in Magento 2 allows converting data into a string using&nbsp;<strong>serialize()<\/strong>&nbsp;method to store in a database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using the native SerializerInterface class, one can&nbsp;<strong>convert array data into serialize format in Magento 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The serialize method is used for storing or passing PHP values, keeping their data type and structure intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, you can store the address field values from the array to the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method To Convert Array Data Into Serialize Format In Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"generic\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">use Magento\\Framework\\Serialize\\SerializerInterface;\n\nprivate $serializer;\n\npublic function __construct(SerializerInterface $serializer) {\n  $this->serializer = $serializer;\n}\n\n\npublic function setSerializeData()\n{\n    $arr = ['color' => 'red','size'=>'XL'];\n    $serializeData = $this->serializer->serialize($arr);\n    return $serializeData;\n}<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s Magento 2 serialization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also, have a look at&nbsp;unserialization in Magento 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019d be grateful if you share the solution with fellow developers via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serialization&nbsp;in Magento 2 allows converting data into a string using&nbsp;serialize()&nbsp;method to store in a database. Using the native SerializerInterface class, one can&nbsp;convert array data into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15094,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions\/15094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}