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Bug #26962 __toString is not called during (string) cast and inside an expression
Submitted: 2004-01-19 05:01 UTC Modified: 2004-07-28 23:24 UTC
Votes:1
Avg. Score:5.0 ± 0.0
Reproduced:1 of 1 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (100.0%)
Same OS:1 (100.0%)
From: alex_mailbox53 at yahoo dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5.0.0 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-01-19 05:01 UTC] alex_mailbox53 at yahoo dot com
Description:
------------
The ZEND_CHANGES defines that __toString method whould 
be called whenever object is casted to sting. But actually it is 
casted to string only during print (echo) operator. 
Even the example in ZEND_CHANGES does not work: 
            class Foo { 
                function __toString() { 
                    return "What ever"; 
            } 
            $obj = Foo; 
            $str = (string) $obj; // call __toString() 
            echo $obj; // call __toString() 
 
print $str will print the "Object" sring, not the "What ever". 
 
One more code example: 
class Integer { 
    private $value; 
 
    function __construct($val) { 
        $this->value = $val; 
    } 
 
    function __toString() { 
        return (string)($this->value); 
    } 
} 
 
$i = new Integer(10); 
if (10 == $i) 
    echo '10!!!! :-)'; 
 
"10!!! :-)" is not printed. 
 

Expected result:
----------------
When object is accessed in expressions it should be explicitly 
casted to sting nor vartype. 


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 [2004-01-19 13:07 UTC] helly@php.net
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip
 [2004-01-24 23:59 UTC] sniper@php.net
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 [2004-07-28 22:40 UTC] Maik_Heller at hotmail dot com
problem still exists even with lates build (for win)
 [2004-07-28 23:01 UTC] helly@php.net
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

For 5.0.x this is expected behavior. __toString() will only called automatically for echo and print constructs. 

Maybe we\'ll change that for 5.1.
 [2004-07-28 23:24 UTC] helly@php.net
Actually this is a PEAR problem. PEAR is not compatible with PHP 5. It is designed for PHP 4 only.
 
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