I was having a discussion with a colleague regarding how to add generic JSON based representation to a number of classes without making a big effort. The immediate solution that came in my mind is to use the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php">Traits</a> for it (introduced in PHP 5.4).
So I wrote the following example for him:
JSONized.php
User.php
username = $username;
 $this-&gt;password = md5($password);
 $this-&gt;email = $email;
 }
}
test.php
toJson();
The result of running the above code will be like this:
{
 "username" : "phpfour",
 "password" : "02c2ec1e3f21e97dd5ac747147a141e0",
 "email" : "<a href="mailto:phpfour@gmail.com" class="autolinkedURL autolinkedURL-email" target="_blank">phpfour@gmail.com</a>"
}

I was having a discussion with a colleague regarding how to add generic JSON based representation to a number of classes without making a big effort. The immediate solution that came in my mind is to use the [Traits](http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.traits.php) for it (introduced in PHP 5.4).

So I wrote the following example for him:

**JSONized.php**

**User.php**

username = $username;
        $this->password = md5($password);
        $this->email = $email;
    }
}

**test.php**

toJson();

The result of running the above code will be like this:

{
    "username" : "phpfour",
    "password" : "02c2ec1e3f21e97dd5ac747147a141e0",
    "email" : "phpfour@gmail.com"
}

JSONize your PHP classes using traits