<?php

use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Serializer;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\JsonEncoder;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Encoder\XmlEncoder;
use Symfony\Component\Serializer\Normalizer\CustomNormalizer;

$jsonEncoder = new JsonEncoder();
$xmlEncoder = new XmlEncoder();
$normalizer = new CustomNormalizer();

$serializer = new Serializer([$normalizer], [$jsonEncoder, $xmlEncoder]);

$array = ['key' => 'value', 'foo' => 'bar'];

$serialized = $serializer->encode($array, 'json');
$unserialized = $serializer->decode($serialized, 'json');

echo '<b>JSON</b>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '<pre>'.$serialized.'</pre>';
dump($unserialized);

$serialized = $serializer->encode($array, 'xml');
$unserialized = $serializer->decode($serialized, 'xml');

echo '<b>XML</b>' . PHP_EOL;
echo '<pre>'.htmlentities($serialized).'</pre>';
dump($unserialized);


JSON

{"key":"value","foo":"bar"}

^ array:2 [

  "key" => "value"

  "foo" => "bar"

]

XML

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<response><key>value</key><foo>bar</foo></response>

^ array:2 [

  "key" => "value"

  "foo" => "bar"

]

• Change service definitions before Symfony compiles container
• The many faces of the Symfony translator trans() method
• Making singular words out of plural with Symfony Inflector

PHP 8.2, Laminas MVC 3.2, Symfony 5.2, Laravel 8.28, PHPUnit 9.5, Doctrine ORM 2.8