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Deprecated 'Serializable' interface usage

Reports the usages of deprecated Serializable interface.

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PhpDeprecatedSerializableUsageInspection
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Starting from PHP 8.1, classes that are non-abstract, implement Serializable, and do not implement __serialize() and __unserialize() will throw a deprecation warning.

See Phasing out Serializable (php.net) for details.

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You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PhpDeprecatedSerializableUsageInspection

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Last modified: 18 September 2025