note 98563 deleted from function.spl-object-hash by danbrown

Note Submitter: aercolino at yahoo dot com ---- For PHP < 5.2, Salvioni's code (see below) only captures the last digit and has unnecessary steps. This is the code I came up with: <?php if (!function_exists('spl_object_hash')) { /** * Returns an hash that uniquely identifies the given $object * * @param object $object * @return string */ function spl_object_hash( $object ) { if (! is_object($object)) { trigger_error(__FUNCTION__ . "() expects parameter 1 to be object", E_USER_WARNING); return null; } ob_start(); var_dump($object); $dump = ob_get_clean(); preg_match('/^object\([^)]+\)\#\d+/i', $dump, $matches); $result = md5($matches[0]); //$matches[0] is something like "object(MyClass)#12" return $result; } } ?>