public function saveUsersToFile($users, $filename) { // what are we doing? $log = usingLog()->startAction("save test users to file '{$filename}'"); // save the contents file_put_contents($filename, json_encode($users, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)); // all done $count = count(get_object_vars($users)); $log->endAction("saved {$count} test user(s)"); }