Oh there is even a rfc. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/to-array What is the
status of this?
On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 08:18, Midori Koçak <mtko...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Or we can deprecate __toString() method at all and detect cast events
> instead. Would it make more sense? Something like this __casted().
>
> P.S: I saw the previous conversation but hence now we have types, it would
> make sense.
>
> Midori
>
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 08:15, Midori Koçak <mtko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As you know we have __toString method that runs whenever an object is
>> typecasted to string or it is directly echoed.
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $class = (new class{
>> public function __toString(){
>> echo "casted\n";
>> return "mahmut\n";
>> }
>> });
>>
>> echo $class;
>> $casted = (string)$class;
>>
>> /*
>> prints:
>> casted
>> mahmut
>> casted
>> mahmut
>> */
>>
>>
>> As you know toArray() method implemented when an object is converted into
>> and array and most of the time when a plain data object is sent to
>> front-end.
>>
>> Having a magic method like __toString called __toArray would be useful to
>> detect and act on conversion events.
>>
>> Roughly it would be like:
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $class = (new class{
>> public function __toArray(){
>> echo "casted\n";
>> return
>> [
>> 'key'=>'value'
>> ];
>> }
>> });
>>
>>
>> $casted = (array)$class;
>> print_r($casted);
>>
>> /*
>> prints:
>> Array
>> (
>> [key] => value
>> )
>> mahmut
>> */
>>
>> What would you think? I think it would add value.
>>
>
