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

Have a look at this class I wrote:

https://github.com/mindplay-dk/jsonfreeze/blob/master/mindplay/jsonfreeze/JsonSerializer.php

It reserves a JSON object-property named '#type' to store the class-name, and it has some limitations that are described here:

Serialize/unserialize PHP object-graph to JSON