Cake Collection vs Serializer

Cake Collection

[READ-ONLY] Collection library in CakePHP. This repo is a split of the main code that can be found in https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp (by cakephp)

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Serializer

Library for (de-)serializing data of any complexity (supports JSON, and XML) (by schmittjoh)

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Cake Collection		Serializer
	Project
-	Mentions	9
87	Stars	2,299
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	7.9
24 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
PHP	Language	PHP
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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Serializer

Posts with mentions or reviews of Serializer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-20.

Data-Mapper: A package for fast mapping of strong-typed objects
11 projects | /r/PHP | 20 Jun 2023
brick/json-mapper: map JSON data to strongly typed PHP DTOs
10 projects | /r/PHP | 15 Feb 2023
Design Decisions: Why use final classes
2 projects | /r/PHP | 1 Dec 2022

Making a class "final" is always a bad decision IMO. You would never know how will other people use your library. For example, we used JMSSerializerBundle and wanted to extend DateHandler to make it not to throw exceptions if a date string is invalid. But the class is final. So we had to just copy-paste it :(
Symfony serializer is tedious
1 project | /r/symfony | 10 Aug 2022
Array -> Entity
2 projects | /r/symfony | 28 Apr 2022

Or this popular alternative: https://jmsyst.com/libs/serializer
PHP libraries and tools
36 projects | dev.to | 22 Sep 2021

JMS Serializer: This library allows you to (de-)serialize data of any complexity. Currently, it supports XML and JSON.
Yet another Data-Transfer-Object package
3 projects | /r/PHP | 18 Jul 2021

Only took a very brief look, but it looks nice. I like that the DTO class isn't required to extend anything, and that it seems to be for real DTOs used for actual transfer of data between systems - not 'local dtos'. It feels like this might be more comparable to something like schmittjoh/serializer rather than spatie/data-transfer-object.
PHP foreach loop to XML
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 7 Mar 2021

When it's time to create the PDF, convert the object structure to an XML using an already existing serializer (like JMS or symfony serializer) or do this by hand.
Is there a better way to connect to an API?
1 project | /r/PHPhelp | 8 Feb 2021

One frequently used serializer is JMS Serializer which allows you to convert JSON or XML to objects (or the other way around if needed). You can then use the objects in your application.