How to save an array with one metakey in postmeta?

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I have an array saved in postmata, each array key become a metakey. I want to change the code to save the whole array with one metakey. How to do that? Thanks!

$poddata = Array(
'pod_id' => $this->pod_id,
'url' => $this->url,
'name' => $this->name,
'description' => $this->description,
'service' => $this->service,
'status' =>$this->status,
'price' => $this->price
);

foreach ( $poddata as $k => $v ){

if ( get_post_meta( $this->id, $k ) == '' )
add_post_meta( $this->id, $meta_box, $v, true );

elseif ( $v != get_post_meta( $this->id, $k, true ) )
update_post_meta( $this->id, $k, $v );

elseif ( $v == '' )
delete_post_meta( $this->id, $k, get_post_meta( $this->id, $k, true ) );

}

1

You don’t need to loop through the values. Just use update_post_meta($post_ID, {key}, {array of vals}), it should do!

<?php
$poddata = Array(
    'pod_id' => $this->pod_id,
    'url' => $this->url,
    'name' => $this->name,
    'description' => $this->description,
    'service' => $this->service,
    'status' =>$this->status,
    'price' => $this->price
    );

//Update inserts a new entry if it doesn't exist, updates otherwise
update_post_meta($post_ID, 'poddata', $poddata);
?>

Thats it! When you fetch it for usage, do the following:

    $poddata = get_post_meta($post_ID, 'poddata');

$poddata is the array of values.

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