PHP Form Values to MD5 /Seialize/Unserialize

Hello there, I have a simple PHP shopping cart that I bought from code canyon, It's called "Simple Cart" What I need done is a simple tweak that changes the way the create the add to cart button form, and the way it's processed. When we create a product button, It takes the form values and creates an array of those vales called $product_settings. if(isset($_POST['save']) && $_POST['save']){ $product_settings = array( 'name' => $_POST['name'], 'weight' => $_POST['weight'], //'shipping' => $_POST['shipping'], 'attr' => ((is_array($_POST['attr'])) ? $_POST['attr'] : array()), ); if(empty($_REQUEST['qdr'])){ $qd_settings = ''; }else{ $qd_settings = '<input type="hidden" value="'.$_REQUEST['qdr'].'" name="qd">'; } $product_settings_encoded = base64_encode(serialize($product_settings)); $hash = md5('my not so s3cret code heh'.$product_settings_encoded); $product_settings_encoded = $product_settings_encoded . '|' . $hash; It serializes the array It then encodes into Base64, as well as adding a hash, and separates with a | I would like my vales to be raw and editable, in the form without being serialized, and without being encoded into Base64. I also would like to get rid of the hash. Once this part is done, I will open up a new project for "Processing" this data, instead of the way it handles now, where it "unserializes" everything and reads the hash, etc. please let me know Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well I don't want the product settings "encoded" I want everything to work the same way , without being encoded.