Question

For error logging I want to save an object as string in my database. I don’t want to use serialization because that triggers the __sleep()-method. So is there another way to save an object as string without using serialize()?

Answer 1

You could try this

$string = print_r($x, true);

To save $string in the databse you could compress the string:

$string = gzcompress($string);

To uncompress and print $string use:

echo '<pre>'.gzuncompress($string).'</pre>';