Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself.  For a
list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please
visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the
appropriate forum for asking support questions. 

Thank you for your interest in PHP.

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Yes, this is a bug.  Try again.

Where are you getting the information that:

php is supposed to use "as much text as possible" when detecting
variables in strings, but it stops at the first object.


Is this in the manual somewhere?  If so that page should be updated.

For complex variable references in interpolated string you must encapsulate them in curly braces.  In your example try:

$String = "text {$Obj->Obj->Prop} text";

Very well, break the documentation instead of fixing the code:

Chapter 7. Types
/strings

Simple syntax
If a dollar sign ($) is encountered, the parser will greedily take as much tokens as possible to form a valid variable name.

If the parser accepts $A->B why can't it accept $A->B->C ?? come on.

PHP 4 does not (and will not) support this kind of dereferencing.

It *is* a feature of PHP 5; you are welcome to try a snapshot from http://snaps.php.net, but it is still beta.

Hopefully someone will at least fix the docs then.