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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] __debug_info()
From: cryptocompress@googlemail.com (Crypto Compress)

Hi,

why not use __toString?

class File {
     // "Resource(stream)" isn't all that useful
     private $fp;

     // But all the stream meta data is
     public function __toString() {
         return $this->fp ? print_r(stream_get_meta_data($this->fp), 
true) : ''; // var export, what ever you like
     }

     public function open($filename, $mode = 'r'){
         $this->fp = fopen($filename, $mode);
     }
}

$f = new File;
echo $f; // object(File)#1 { }
$f->open('http://php.net');
echo $f;

cryptocompress