You can’t use it as-is because it will get double-serialized. So as per comment you unserialize it first and it will get serialized back when saved into option.
$array = unserialize( $stuff );
update_option('my_options', $array);
You can’t use it as-is because it will get double-serialized. So as per comment you unserialize it first and it will get serialized back when saved into option.
$array = unserialize( $stuff );
update_option('my_options', $array);