Re: Casting of objects to array exports private/protected data

Pierre-Alain Joye wrote:

On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:44:29 +0100 Andrey Hristov <php@hristov.com> wrote:

IMO, when casting to array with (array) only the public-ly visible members should returned.

Dunno, E_STRICT (as you can access them without notice/warning without this flag)? In the same manner: <?php error_reporting(E_STRICT); class some {

         public $pub = 1;
         protected $prot = 2;
         private $priv = 3;

} class any extends some {

        public $pub1 = 1;
        function dump() {
                var_dump($this);
        }

} var_dump((array)new any()); $a = new any; $a->dump(); ?> a var_dump should dump protected props from the parent class as they are visible. Note the "funny" thing is that var_dump() alone do not display the public|protected props, whatever is the context call. IMHO, that sounds not very consistent, but only imho... Yes, it does not. Use print_r() for dumping. print_r() uses internal zend function to dump the variable content while var_dump() is defined in ext/standard/var.c and knows nothing

about protected and private functions (or at least it was that 2 months ago). print_r() has the expected behavior of dumping data, but casting to array and getting protected/private data is nasty. Andrey