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How to use toJSON() with related records

posted by adampenly 7 years ago

Hi all-

I'm trying to figure out how to get nested JSON output using the toJSON() function of fActiveRecord. Here's what I'm doing:

$user = new User(array('email' => [string from POST])); // Create a singular User object $user->buildAddresses(); // Retrieve *-to-many Addresses for the User $user->buildPhoneNumbers(); // Retrieve *-to-many PhoneNumbers for the User

echo $user->toJSON(); // Convert and output the user as JSON

When I do var_dump($user), I can see the whole object including the Addresses and PhoneNumbers as nested parts of the User object. However, $user->toJSON() only returns the main User part of the object.

How do I include Addresses and PhoneNumbers as nested JSON in my output?

Thanks!