Best way to serialize an object

[eluser]Seppo[/eluser]
Have you think about using __sleep?
If you want to store all data but parent's var you can use some reflection and array functions, something like this:

Code:

function __sleep()
    {
        return (array_keys(array_diff(get_class_vars(__CLASS__), get_class_vars(get_parent_class($this)))));
    }