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 Koçak <mtko...@gmail.com> wrote: > As you know we have __toString method that runs whenever an object is > typecasted to string or it is directly echoed. > > <?php > > $class = (new class{ > public function __toString(){ > echo "casted\n"; > return "mahmut\n"; > } > }); > > echo $class; > $casted = (string)$class; > > /* > prints: > casted > mahmut > casted > mahmut > */ > > > As you know toArray() method implemented when an object is converted into > 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 to > detect and act on conversion events. > > Roughly it would be like: > > <?php > > $class = (new class{ > public function __toArray(){ > echo "casted\n"; > return > [ > 'key'=>'value' > ]; > } > }); > > > $casted = (array)$class; > print_r($casted); > > /* > prints: > Array > ( > [key] => value > ) > mahmut > */ > > What would you think? I think it would add value. >
