PHP deep clone object

Question

The scenario: fetch an email template from the database, and loop through a list of recipients, personalising the email for each.

My email template is returned as a

Answer 1

Another more generic and powerful solution: MyCLabs\DeepCopy.

It helps creating deep copy without having to overload __clone (which can be a lot of work if you have a lot of different objects).

Answer 2

You could add a __clone() method to your email class. Which is automatically called when an instance of this class is cloned via clone(). In this method you can then manually add the template.

Example:

class email {
    __clone() {
         $this->template = new template();
    }
}

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unserialize(serialize($object)); // would be another solution...