> So, yes, just to make it more human friendly. In which case, the actual
> value doesn't matter, and rather than reverse-engineering the hash, you
> could just make up your own ID:
>
> function my_object_id($obj) {
> static $hash_to_id=[];
> $hash = spl_object_hash($obj);
> if ( ! array_key_exists($hash, $hash_to_id) ) {
> $hash_to_id[$hash] = count( $hash_to_id);
> }
> return $hash_to_id[$hash];
> }
>
Yep, that would work, but with the following drawbacks:
- it would create a memory leak/overhead
- more importantly for users, these ids couldn't be compared to var_dumps'.
