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Subject: RE: [PHP-DEV] Exposing object handles to userland
From: anatol.php@belski.net ("Anatol Belski")

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: julienpauli@gmail.com [mailto:julienpauli@gmail.com] On Behalf =
Of
> Julien Pauli
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 4:24 PM
> To: PHP Internals <internals@lists.php.net>
> Subject: [PHP-DEV] Exposing object handles to userland
>=20
> Hi people.
>=20
> I've been pinged many times to add a new spl_object_id() function to =
PHP, that
> would return the internal object handle of an object.
>=20
> Today, spl_object_hash() partially allows that, but adds many =
randomness to the
> result, which is not very cool to use later  (why does it even add =
randomness ?).
>=20
> There has been topics about this subject.
> For example, at =
http://marc.info/?l=3Dphp-internals&m=3D141814350920452&w=3D2
>=20
>=20
> Beeing able to get the object handle back in PHP userland would ease =
many
> tools, mainly debug-oriented tools.
> I know PHPUnit, Symfony and many big projects today make use of
> spl_object_hash() to identify objects.
>=20
> I also know people that print_r($an_object) and parse the output just =
to extract
> the object handle from there... Crazy isn't it ?
> Why couldn't we help those people by simply adding a new function that =
does
> the job ?
>=20
Regarding the ID keywords, that reminds on =
https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#id . While not =
everything is object in PHP, fe it could be interesting at least for the =
strings since we have interned strings. Maybe there were some wider =
range of useful information to provide in user land, not only related to =
objects.

Regards

Anatol