Is there any feature submission process were we could discuss of this
subject ?
"Colin Guthrie" <gmane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
gapele$188$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Nathan Rixham wrote:
>> concurred; I recently made a class that turn's all objects into XML; and
>> implented it in my __toString()'s :)
>
> In that case rather than __toBool() __toInt() etc. it should really
> support a magic __cast() method or similar.
>
> This method would contain a single argument that represents the type (e.g.
> a class name or a builtin type....
>
> function __cast($type)
> {
> switch ($type)
> {
> case 'string':
> return 'Foo';
> case 'array':
> return array('Foo');
> case 'DomDocument':
> // etc.
> }
> }
>
> And if you did:
>
> $foo = new MyClass;
>
> $xml = (DomDocument)$foo;
>
> It would return the result of __cast called with $type == 'DomDocument'.
>
> That would be nice and generic.
>
> I could see that being quite useful (tho' arguably, itmplementing a cast()
> method is not that hard:
>
> $xml = $foo->cast('DomDocument');
>
> It's not as neat tho' :)
>
> col
>
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