I am developing a simple but flexible content manager, and for managing pages I want to give the user the opportunity to organize the layout by dragging the content onto the page, being able to create content lines divided into two or three, like a table.
The following image may illustrate what I mean:

The user can make a layout for a static image on the left, and the text on the right, and at the bottom he can place a gallery of images showing thumbnails.
Now, my question is how to store and load data in Mysql ...
I have two options:
1) With serialized data for the layout:
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:
// Rows / divisions ...
$array[0]['q'] = 2;
$array[1]['q'] = 1;
// The content
$array[0]['c'][0]['t'] = 3; // 't' = type (3 = image)
$array[0]['c'][0]['i'] = 124; // 'i' = id to search for this data
$array[0]['c'][1]['t'] = 1; // 't' = type (1 = text)
$array[0]['c'][1]['i'] = 2; // Referencia ao ID do conteudo
$array[1]['c'][0]['t'] = 4; // 't' = type (4 = image gallery)
$array[1]['c'][0]['i'] = 9; // Referencia ao ID do conteudo
:
a:2:{i:0;a:2:{s:1:"q";i:2;s:1:"c";a:2:{i:0;a:2:{s:1:"t";i:3;s:1:"i";i:124;}i:1;a:2:{s:1:"t";i:1;s:1:"i";i:2;}}}i:1;a:2:{s:1:"q";i:1;s:1:"c";a:1:{i:0;a:2:{s:1:"t";i:4;s:1:"i";i:9;}}}}
:
2) :
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:
id -> component id
id_page -> page´s id
type -> component type, and 0 == row
value -> id reference to content or quantity of divisions for the rows
:
id / id_page / type / value
1 / 1 / 0 / 2
2 / 1 / 3 / 124
3 / 1 / 1 / 2
4 / 1 / 4 / 9
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