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

Hi Marcus, Is this going to change back? The php5 documentation on the zend site shows that both casting and print/echo should work. I guess people could use the output buffering methods to get the print data for the time being. A not so happy work around :( Thanks again, David On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Marcus Boerger wrote: > 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 >