Specify how and which data should be serialized to JSON Over the past few years JSON has become the standard of data interchange formats. Before JSON, XML was king. XML was great at modeling complex data but it is difficult to parse and is very verbose. JSON really took off when rich AJAX driven sites were introduced as it’s very lightweight. It is in a human readable format, quick to parse and its simple key/value representation cuts out all the verbosity of XML.
Reflection; use what you have typed already! Isn‘t it weird that we are type casting parameters and variables while you have already mentioned what type it should be?
PhpStorm: Short hand syntax for arrays Since version 5.4 PHP is capable of using a short hand syntax for arrays. But how to enforce this in PhpStorm?
XSD to PHP objects Nothing can be more painfull than a SOAP service which does not return the full WSDL object descriptions. But there is a solution. Kind of ...