[2004-02-03 02:42 UTC] adam at trachtenberg dot com

Description:
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When strval() is passed an object with a __toString() 
method, strval() should return the results of 
__toString().

This makes strval() consistent with (string), which the 
PHP manual agree to be the same thing:

"You can convert a value to a string using the (string) 
cast, or the strval() function."

See also internals list discussion: http://www.mail-
archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg05832.html

Reproduce code:
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class foo {
	public function __toString() {
		return "foo\n";
	}
}

$foo = new foo;
print strval($foo);

Expected result:
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foo

Actual result:
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PHP Notice:  Object of class foo could not be converted 
to string in /Users/adam/Documents/php/php5/toString.php 
on line 10

 [2004-03-14 17:51 UTC] helly@php.net

This bug has been fixed in CVS.

Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change
will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at
http://snaps.php.net/.
 
Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better.