First Implementation

includes/UserDAO.php

@@ -2,39 +2,62 @@
 
 class UserDAO {
 
-    private static array $users = [
-        [
-            "email" => "test@test.de",
-            "username" => "test",
-            "password" => "1234"
-        ]
-    ];
+    private string $file = "data/users.json";
+
+    private function loadUsers() {
+        if (!file_exists($this->file)) {
+            return [];
+        }
+
+        $json = file_get_contents($this->file);
+        $users = json_decode($json, true);
+
+        return is_array($users) ? $users : [];
+    }
+
+    private function saveUsers($users) {
+        file_put_contents(
+            $this->file,
+            json_encode($users, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)
+        );
+    }
 
     public function findUser($email) {
-        foreach (self::$users as $user) {
+        $users = $this->loadUsers();
+
+        foreach ($users as $user) {
             if ($user["email"] === $email) {
                 return $user;
             }
         }
+
         return null;
     }
 
     public function addUser($email, $username, $password) {
-        self::$users[] = [
+        $users = $this->loadUsers();
+
+        $users[] = [
             "email" => $email,
             "username" => $username,
             "password" => $password
         ];
+
+        $this->saveUsers($users);
     }
 
     public function deleteUser($email) {
-        foreach (self::$users as $i => $user) {
+        $users = $this->loadUsers();
+
+        foreach ($users as $i => $user) {
             if ($user["email"] === $email) {
-                unset(self::$users[$i]);
-                self::$users = array_values(self::$users);
+                unset($users[$i]);
+                $users = array_values($users);
+                $this->saveUsers($users);
                 return true;
             }
         }
+
         return false;
     }
 }