Re: Re: [ZEND-ENGINE-CVS] cvs: ZendEngine2 / zend_API.c

On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Andrei Zmievski wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Marcus Boerger wrote: > > Convert objects to string if string is required by newer parameter parsing > > since we do this for older parameter parsing does so too. > > Do you really think this is necessary? I can see the automatic > object->string casting being useful for things like print(), but when a > extension author expects a string, would it make sense to make the > object convert itself? I mean the result will most likely be some > internal object info represented as a string, and not something > meaningful. This is needed for SimpleXML. It's an object pretending to be a set of strings. You've got to be able to things like: htmlentities($xml->element); You can't do that currently because htmlentities() complains that you're passing in an object. As far as I'm concerned, if you don't want your object to be auomatically cast to a string, you shouldn't provide a __toString() method. -adam -- adam@trachtenberg.com