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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 11:35:29 +0100
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To: Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] What about a magic __toArray() method?
From: mtkocak@gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Midori_Ko=C3=A7ak?=)

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Marco, I've read it and your argument is strong. I think my opinion
slightly moves towards Andreas, away from magic.

here is something I wrote some days ago:
https://github.com/midorikocak/arraytools/blob/master/src/ArrayConvertableT=
rait.php

I guess you were saying something like this would be enough.

Midori

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 11:31, Marco Pivetta <ocramius@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Midori,
>
> This has been discussed in more depth 2 years ago:
> https://externals.io/message/98539#98539
>
> In practice, the `(array)` cast is one of the few operations that don't
> cause observable side-effects in this programming language: let's please
> keep it as such.
>
> Marco Pivetta
>
> http://twitter.com/Ocramius
>
> http://ocramius.github.com/
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 8:15 AM Midori Ko=C3=A7ak <mtkocak@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
>
>> 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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