Question

I’m currently working on zend framework and trying to store serialised version of an object let’s say

class customer{
   protected $id;
   public static function getInstanceById( $id )
   {
      $this->id=$id;
   }
   public function getOrders()
   {
       return array('pizza', 'pancake', 'etc');
   }
}

and if I do

$customer = Customer::getInstanceById(1);
$content = serialize( $customer );
file_put_contents('file.txt', $content);

and later on I do

$data = file_get_contents('file.txt');
$customer = unserialize( $data );
$order = $customer->getOrders(); // <<<<<<<

this will throw error.

any idea how to restore the state of the object when unserializing it?

Please help!

Thanks

Answer 1

PHP docs is usually pretty thorough for these things. Check out the page on Object Serialization.