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The JsonSerializable interface

(PHP 5 >= 5.4.0, PHP 7, PHP 8)

Introduction

Objects implementing JsonSerializable can customize their JSON representation when encoded with json_encode().

Interface synopsis

interface JsonSerializable {
/* Methods */
public function jsonSerialize(): mixed
}

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<JsonExceptionJsonSerializable::jsonSerialize>
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