Re: Regarding object casting

Hi Matīss, Internal classes are able to define what happens when casting to different primitive types. There was an RFC [1] to extend this behavior to userland, but it has since been withdrawn. See archives for further discussion about this. Best regards, --Matthew On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Matīss Roberts Treinis <mrtreinis@gmail.com>wrote: > Good day, PHP internals folks. > > As we all know, objects in PHP casts to true by default, except one > particular class - SimpleXML objects created from empty tag. > > Many people in the community has had a problem with this limitation (or > lack of functionality) to be able to set cast value of the object and are > exploiting the SimpleXML to achieve the ability to control object casting.. > > The question would be, why this exception - SimpleXML? Could we have a > magic method or other way to control how object is being casted? > > Thoughts? > > Thanks. >