Re: Re: __toString & friends

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http://bugs.php.net should help you out.

In the bug reporting page there's a Feature request item (It's the 3rd item
in the Type of bug select).

Btw, I liked this idea :)

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Leurent Francois <131.php@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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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