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

Maybe the hydration pattern can be of help.

Basically you instantiate an new empty object (new User()) and then you fill in the properties with values from the StdClass object. For example you could have a hydrate method in User.

If possible in your case, you can make the User constructor accept an optional parameter of type StdClass and take the values at instantiation.