Re: New handler for retrieving properties when object is serialized

From: Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:47:51 +0000
Subject: Re: New handler for retrieving properties when object is serialized
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On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi!
>
> > It's useful in situation if you only need to change properties for
> > serialization. It's very similar to get_debug_info that is used only in
> > specific situations (print_r...)
>
> Isn't __sleep already doing this?
>

__sleep returns an array of object property *names* to be serialized. Using
__sleep you can restrict the set of serialized properties, but the
properties still need to exist.

Nikita


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