Deserializing from JSON into PHP, with casting?

Question

Suppose I have a User class with \'name\' and \'password\' properties, and a \'save\' method. When serializing an object of this class to JSON via json_encode, the method is pro

Answer 1

You could create a FactoryClass of some sort:

function create(array $data)  
{
    $user = new User();
    foreach($data as $k => $v) {
        $user->$k = $v;
    }
    return $user;
}

It's not like the solution you wanted, but it gets your job done.