note 111981 added to language.oop5.magic

In recent versions of PHP, if you define __toString with arguments it will trigger a Fatal error: "__tostring() cannot take arguments". But, if you really need this (like I needed, because my framework heavily used these arguments), you have a workaround: <?php class a { public function __toString() { list($a) = func_get_args(); return $a; } } $a = new a(); echo $a->__toString('PHP'); // PHP ?> ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 78.97.147.124 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/111981 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111981/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111981/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111981/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111981/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111981/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111981/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111981 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/111981 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php