Re: __toString() with cast is broken in php5 RC1

Hello David, that's correct. See the NEWS file, 3rd entry: 18 March 2004, PHP 5 Release Candidate 1 - Fixed numerous bugs with the just-in-time auto-global initialization, that could cause $_SERVER, $argv/$argc and other variables not to work properly. (Zeev) - Fixed data corruption with constant assignments to object properties. (Zeev) - Changed __toString() to be called automatically only with print and echo statements. (Andi) Friday, April 2, 2004, 1:13:28 AM, you wrote: > Hi There, > I just got a chance tp update to PHP5 RC1 and noticed that some things > have changed for the __toString method. It seems that it it only getting > called when the object is printed or echo. Casting the object to a string > returns the Object #. Here is an example: > ---- The Script: > <?php > class obj > { > function __toString() > { > return "yo!!\n"; > } > } > $obj = new obj(); > print_r($obj); > $test = (string) $obj; > print $test; > print $obj; ?>> > ----- Produces: > obj Object > ( > ) > Object id #1yo!! > Thanks, > David -- Best regards, Marcus mailto:helly@php.net