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 > > > > -- > > > > Colin Guthrie > > gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie > > http://colin.guthr.ie/ > > > > Day Job: > > Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] > > Open Source: > > Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] > > PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] > > Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/] > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Thiago Henrique Pojda
