Updated JSON conversion

[Bob]

as per: XF 2.1 - Welcome to XenForo 2.1 / Assorted improvements

Traditionally we have always used PHP's built-in serialization features as a way to encode data arrays as strings for database storage. Although there are still some benefits to using serialization, we have updated most of our schema to use JSON going forward.

From a development point of view, we would recommend developers follow suit and move their existing data to JSON if they haven't already and they are able to.

I have updated the Sportsbook schema to use JSON going forward as well.

 

[EasyEazy]

as per: XF 2.1 - Welcome to XenForo 2.1 / Assorted improvements




I have updated the Sportsbook schema to use JSON going forward as well.

Sorry for being so dumb. Would we see any difference or is it a benefit to coding?

 

[Bob]

Sorry for being so dumb. Would we see any difference or is it a benefit to coding?

Did you click on the LINK and read Chris's post about it? He explains what it is, what is does, why they did it. It applies to all content types within the XenForo Framework. Its mainly backend stuff, but in the future, new features will be available (like being able to query for data stored in JSON format).

 

[EasyEazy]

Did you click on the LINK and read Chris's post about it? He explains what it is, what is does, why they did it. It applies to all content types within the XenForo Framework. Its mainly backend stuff, but in the future, new features will be available (like being able to query for data stored in JSON format).

Yeah I did but it was still Chinese to me.

 

[Bob]

Yeah I did but it was still Chinese to me.

Its a safer (more secure) and more modern way of storing specific types of Data (mainly arrays of data). Its not something that you need to learn about. Its just informational right now (and needs to be announced in case anyone has done any type of customization that uses fields that used to be serialized (as that data would need to be handled properly to use JSON).