Laravel Collection Public API: jsonSerialize

jsonSerialize

The jsonSeralize method internally returns the value of the toArray method. This method exists to implement PHP's JsonSerializable interface, which allows developers to customize how a class is represented when using the json_encode function.

 1<?php
 2 
 3use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
 4 
 5// Create a new collection.
 6$collection = new Collection([
 7    'first', 'second', 'third'
 8]);
 9 
10// Get the value that should be encoded with
11// json_encode.
12$value = $collection->jsonSerialize();

The $value variable would contain a value similar to the following output:

1array (size=3)
2  0 => string 'first' (length=5)
3  1 => string 'second' (length=6)
4  2 => string 'third' (length=5)

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