function load_array_dump($filename) { $fp = fopen($filename,"r"); $content = fread($fp,filesize($filename)); fclose($fp); eval('$array='.gzuncompress(stripslashes($content)).';'); return($array); } function save_array_dump($filename, $array) { $dump = addslashes(gzcompress(var_export($array,true),9)); $fp = fopen($filename, "wb+"); fwrite($fp, $dump); fclose($fp); } //Example save_array_dump('test.txt', array(1,2,3));