Don’t clone your php objects, DeepCopy them
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Daniel Gomes, a developer at Teamleader, explains a potential problem when cloning object in PHP.
As you know, PHP has a well-known clone keyword that shallow copy all of the object’s properties. So under the hood what it does is to create a new Object with the exact same values of that object properties – unless you change its behavior by implementing the clone() function in your class.
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