From: php at bouchery dot com Operating system: All PHP version: 5.1.4 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Make toString working with strval
Description: ------------ Currently, __toString work ONLY with echo/print, and it's very restrictive. It could be very interresting to allow toString working with strval() to avoid this : <?php if( is_object($var) ) $text = 'var = ' . $var->__toString(); else $text = 'var = ' . $var; ?> Expected result: ---------------- <?php $text = 'var = ' . strval($var); ?> Or better : <?php $text = 'var = ' . $var; ?> -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=37702&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=trysnapshot44 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=trysnapshot52 Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=37702&r=mysqlcfg
