From: marcos dot neves at gmail dot com
Operating system: ANY
PHP version: 5.2.0
PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request
Bug description: __toString back compatibility
Description:
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Object that do not implement __toString, now stop the script with "PHP
Catchable fatal error: Object of class {className} could not be converted
to string in ..."
But for backward compatibility, if __toString is not implemented, it
should return the old object id value, or the name of class of the object
for example.
I agree that nobody can rely on old ObjectId string, but there´s thousand
scripts that stringfy data for logging,
like this:
function log($vars)
{
foreach($vars as $var) echo $var;
}
function test($a, $b)
{
log(func_get_args());
}
Reproduce code:
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class Foo { }
echo new Foo;
Expected result:
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Old behavior of conversion from object to string
Actual result:
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Catchable fatal error: Object of class Foo could not be converted to
string in ...
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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=39392&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=trysnapshot44
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 5.2):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=trysnapshot52
Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 6.0):
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=needscript
Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=oldversion
Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=support
Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=notwrong
Not enough info:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=submittedtwice
register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=php3
Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=dst
IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=gnused
Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=float
No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=39392&r=mysqlcfg
