PHPUnit Segmentation fault

Question

When a PHPUnit test fails normally on my dev box (Linux Mint), it causes a \"Segmentation Fault\" on my Continous Integration box (Centos). Both machines are running the sam

Answer 1

if you have an object with property pointing to the same object, or other sort of pointer loops, you will have this message while running

serialize($object);

And if you are a Laravel user, and you are dealing with models. And if you think, you will never have this problem, because you avoiding pointer loops by using $hidden property on your models, please be advised, the $hidden property does not affect serialize, it only affects casting to JSON and array.

I had this problem, when I had a model saved into a property of a Mailable object.

fixed with

$this->model->refresh(); 

in a __construct method , just before the whole object is serialized.