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Request #39392 __toString back compatibility
Submitted: 2006-11-05 23:23 UTC Modified: 2006-11-06 14:26 UTC
From: marcos dot neves at gmail dot com Assigned:
Status: Not a bug Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5.2.0 OS: ANY
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2006-11-05 23:23 UTC] marcos dot neves at gmail dot com
Description:
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Object that do not implement __toString, now stop the script with "PHP Catchable fatal error:  Object of class {className} could not be converted to string in ..."

But for backward compatibility, if __toString is not  implemented, it should return the old object id value, or the name of class of the object for example.

I agree that nobody can rely on old ObjectId string, but there?s thousand scripts that stringfy data for logging,
like this:

function log($vars)
{
foreach($vars as $var) echo $var;
}

function test($a, $b)
{
    log(func_get_args());
}

Reproduce code:
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class Foo { }
echo new Foo;

Expected result:
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Old behavior of conversion from object to string

Actual result:
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Catchable fatal error: Object of class Foo could not be converted to string in ...

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 [2006-11-06 14:26 UTC] helly@php.net
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