From: timo dot hummel at 4fb dot de
Operating system: n/a
PHP version: 5.0.4
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: Overloading builtin functions
Description:
------------
A very helpful and nice feature for PHP would be to overload builtin
functions. As PHP5 now features the functions echo and print are calling
the method __toString if it exists in a class, that feature is still
lacking in many other functions where they may be useful (like sprintf,
printf, just to name a few).
To prevent that PHP developers have to do alot of work and to provide a
general interface, something like the following pseudo code demonstrates
overloading builtin functions:
<?php
function myOwnEcho ()
{
$ts = date("Y-m-d H:i:s");
print ($ts . " ");
$num_args = func_num_args();
for ($i=0; $i < $num_args; $i++)
{
print (func_get_arg($i));
}
}
overload_function("echo", "myOwnEcho");
echo "foo";
?>
Results in:
2004-04-21 15:09:01 foo
I know that echo is a language construct and not a function, it's just
been used because most PHP developers use echo for output.
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Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32790&r=mysqlcfg
