Discussion on: The single most usefull php trait I use in my projects

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Replies for: You should implement the JsonSerializable interface (secure.php.net/manual/en/jsonseria...), then you can just pass your object to json_encode() an...

Yah sure, but the downside of implementing JsonSerializable is that i will need a different return value to jsonSerialize in all of my models because i have to construct an array representation of the class every time.

class Person implements \JsonSerializable
{
    private $id;
    private $name;
    public function setName($name)
    {
        $this->name = $name;
    }
    public function jsonSerialize()
    {
        return [
            'id' => $this->$id,
            'name' => $this->name,
        ];
    }
}

Daniel Lo Nigro • Jul 3 '18

Good point. I forgot that traits can't implement interfaces in PHP. I use Hack at work, which is based on PHP but traits are able to implement interfaces when using Hack.