wordpress data for buddypress

Question

I have data for buddypress in table named "wp_bp_xprofile_data" which has fields like

"a:2:{i:0;s:10:"myproject";i:1;s:5:"Other";}"

What kind of data it is ? surely its not JSON ...

Answer 1

It's PHP serialised data. You can parse it out with unserialize()

http://php.net/manual/en/function.unserialize.php

Answer 2

Re serialized profile data:

$value = bp_get_profile_field_data(‘field=some_serialized_field’);
$value = bp_unserialize_profile_field($value);