ID: 38935 Updated by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reported By: marcus at synchromedia dot co dot uk -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Bug Type: Class/Object related Operating System: All PHP Version: 5.1.6 New Comment:
Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at http://www.php.net/manual/ and the instructions on how to report a bug at http://bugs.php.net/how-to-report.php The class information is needed, see for example class A { private $p; } class B extends A { private $p; } var_dump((array)new B()); Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2006-09-23 15:31:13] marcus at synchromedia dot co dot uk Description: ------------ When you cast an object to an array, and the object contains private or protected members, the resulting array keys are effectively corrupted. Private members get the object class prepended to their name. Protected members get a '*' prepended to their name. The docs say: "If you convert an object to an array, you get the properties (member variables) of that object as the array's elements. The keys are the member variable names." In reality, this is not true. I don't see any real value in preserving access levels - arrays are not objects and they should not try to behave as them. You can find out the access level via introspection if you really need it, and by definition you have an instance handy to look at. If it's intentional, it's not very helpful. As there's no separator between class name and variable name it's impossible to separate it correctly - if I had a property called 'Myclassfield1' in a Myclass instance, I would not be able to tell if it was a public property called 'Myclassfield1' or a private property called 'field1'. As this is deviating from documented behaviour and it's also fairly useless as it stands, I don't see any reason for keeping it like this. Reproduce code: --------------- <?php class Myclass { public $field1 = ''; private $field2 = ''; protected $field3 = ''; } $myclass = new Myclass; var_dump($myclass); var_dump((array)$myclass); ?> Expected result: ---------------- object(Myclass)#1 (3) { ["field1"]=> string(0) "" ["field2:private"]=> string(0) "" ["field3:protected"]=> string(0) "" } array(3) { ["field1"]=> string(0) "" ["field2"]=> string(0) "" ["field3"]=> string(0) "" } Actual result: -------------- object(Myclass)#1 (3) { ["field1"]=> string(0) "" ["field2:private"]=> string(0) "" ["field3:protected"]=> string(0) "" } array(3) { ["field1"]=> string(0) "" ["Myclassfield2"]=> string(0) "" ["*field3"]=> string(0) "" } ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=38935&edit=1
