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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 08:25:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: What about a magic __toArray() method?
From: mtkocak@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Midori_Ko=C3=A7ak?=)

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Oh there is even a rfc. https://wiki.php.net/rfc/to-array What is the
status of this?

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 08:18, Midori Ko=C3=A7ak <mtkocak@gmail.com> wrote:

> Or we can deprecate __toString() method at all and detect cast events
> instead. Would it make more sense? Something like this __casted().
>
> P.S: I saw the previous conversation but hence now we have types, it woul=
d
> make sense.
>
> Midori
>
> On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 08:15, Midori Ko=C3=A7ak <mtkocak@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> As you know we have __toString method that runs whenever an object is
>> typecasted to string or it is directly echoed.
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $class =3D (new class{
>>   public function __toString(){
>>     echo "casted\n";
>>     return "mahmut\n";
>>   }
>> });
>>
>> echo $class;
>> $casted =3D (string)$class;
>>
>> /*
>> prints:
>> casted
>> mahmut
>> casted
>> mahmut
>> */
>>
>>
>> As you know toArray() method implemented when an object is converted int=
o
>> and array and most of the time when a plain data object is sent to
>> front-end.
>>
>> Having a magic method like __toString called __toArray would be useful t=
o
>> detect and act on conversion events.
>>
>> Roughly it would be like:
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> $class =3D (new class{
>>   public function __toArray(){
>>     echo "casted\n";
>>     return
>>     [
>>       'key'=3D>'value'
>>     ];
>>   }
>> });
>>
>>
>> $casted =3D (array)$class;
>> print_r($casted);
>>
>> /*
>> prints:
>> Array
>> (
>>     [key] =3D> value
>> )
>> mahmut
>> */
>>
>> What would you think? I think it would add value.
>>
>

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