note 100550 deleted from language.oop5.typehinting by nikic

Note Submitter: alejosimon at gmail dot com ---- For PHP 5.3 version and namespaces support. <?php function phpErrorHandler( $code, $message, $file, $line ) { if ( error_reporting() & $code ) { if ( $code == E_RECOVERABLE_ERROR ) { // Scalar Type-Hinting patch. $regexp = '/^Argument (\d)+ passed to (.+) must be an instance of (?<hint>.+), (?<given>.+) given/i' ; if ( preg_match( $regexp, $message, $match ) ) { $given = $match[ 'given' ] ; $hint = end( explode( '\\', $match[ 'hint' ] ) ) ; // namespaces support. if ( $hint == $given ) return true ; } } return false ; } } set_error_handler( 'phpErrorHandler' ) ; /************************************/ function typeHintTest( integer $arg1 ) { print_r( $arg1 ) ; } typeHintTest( true ) ; // Error throw because not integer type. ?>