Re: echo new SplFileObject(__FILE__);

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 11:29 PM, hakre <hanskrentel@yahoo.de> wrote: > Can somebody shed some light why: > > <?php > > echo new SplFileObject(__FILE__); > > returns the first line of the file (in that case <?php)? > > SplFileInfo has the path and SplFileObject extends from it but it will > return the current line. I do not really understand why and I tend to > report this as a bug but I'm not sure. > > > --hakre > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > SplFileObject->__toString() is an alias for current() which will return the current line of file http://lxr.php.net/xref/PHP_5_3/ext/spl/spl_directory.c#2954 http://www.php.net/manual/en/splfileobject.tostring.php it seems that the class synopsis at http://www.php.net/manual/en/class.splfileobject.php is missing this method so it is easy to think that it isn't provided by the SplFileObject so the parent't method will be used, which isn't the case. -- Ferenc Kovács @Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu