Req #76887 [NEW]: New Useful Magic Methods

From: klaussantana at gmail dot com Operating system: Any PHP version: Irrelevant Package: Reflection related Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description:New Useful Magic Methods Description: ------------ I'm sugesting some new magic methods for objects that'll add some useful behaviours to objects in new versions of PHP. 1. __toNumber() Do some calculations on the object and return a number automatically when an object is casted as a number, be it integer or float. Useful to AI scripts for calculating the numerical weight of an object and many other stuff. Can be achieved by using "(float) ( (string) $Object )", but this costs a lot of characters in every expression and misuses the "__toString" method. 2. __toArray() Must create and return a raw array with keys being the names of the properties of the working object and with their respective values being references to their counterparts in the working object. Pretty much do the same things achieved by "ArrayIterator::getArrayCopy()", but slightly different. Automatically called when the object is casted as an array (eg.: "(array) $Object"). This method scope could detect it's parent's in a way that it can return the properties acordingly with the scope that called the method. For example, if in an outer scope it will only return the public properties, if from an inner scope it will return protected or private properties as well. -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=76887&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.5): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=trysnapshot55 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=76887&r=mysqlcfg