member group blob

**thdelerme** · 01/14/2011, 19:14

Hello,
In a specific php file, I would like to filter the members by their group.
I read the tl_member table and i extract the groups field.
But it 's not an array, I think it is a specific file

Are there some means to know the group(s) of a member?
Thanks for help
Thierry

**pbrooks** · 01/14/2011, 20:05

It's a serialized object, use http://php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php to unserialize it into an array.

**ramjet** · 01/14/2011, 22:11

or the Contao function deserialize()
Both work, i'm not sure the reason Contao has a specific function for this.

**Medianomaly** · 01/15/2011, 00:29

Tru has a blog post that hints as to why deserialized() exists...

http://blog.qzminski.com/2010/09/9-cool ... functions/

**ramjet** · 01/15/2011, 10:37

I just read it 5 minutes before I read your reply!
I was cruising his blog on another matter.... its a great resource and i love his style.
I tried to post a thanks on it, as i found my answer, but somehow I broke the comments function.