SinisterMotives

You could store each serialized object in a database and manipulate the relations among them with SQL, but the serial data itself would be a string representing the object's native PHP member variables. For example, to merge two "tables", you would have to deserialize the objects and operate on their member variables (multidimensional arrays in this case). I'm working on a PHP recordset class that mimics some of the functionality of a database server, but a full SQL implementation would be gross overkill for the application I'm using it in.