From: jordan dot raub at dataxltd dot com Operating system: Linux PHP version: 5.4.4 Package: SimpleXML related Bug Type: Bug Bug description:implementing __toString and a cast to string fails
Description: ------------ I would expect casting to a string to have the same result as calling the __toString() function on extending a SimpleXMLElement object. I've tested this against PHP 5.3.3-7+squeeze13 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Jun 10 2012 07:31:32) Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies with XCache v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 2005-2009, by mOo with Xdebug v2.1.2, Copyright (c) 2002-2011, by Derick Rethans with Suhosin v0.9.32.1, Copyright (c) 2007-2010, by SektionEins GmbH and PHP 5.4.4 (cli) (built: Jun 14 2012 11:50:02) Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.4.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies and PHP 5.3.14 (cli) (built: Jun 14 2012 11:49:39) Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies Test script: --------------- <?php class UberSimpleXML extends SimpleXMLElement { public function __toString() { return 'stringification'; } } $xml = new UberSimpleXML('<xml/>'); $xml->tag = "you're it!"; echo "\nno cast\n"; echo $xml; echo "\ncast\n"; echo (string) $xml; echo "\nexplicit call\n"; echo $xml->__toString(); echo "\n"; var_dump((string) $xml); var_dump($xml->__toString()); Expected result: ---------------- no cast stringification cast explicit call stringification string(0) "" string(15) "stringification" Actual result: -------------- no cast stringification cast stringification explicit call stringification string(15) "stringification" string(15) "stringification" -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62328&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=needdocs Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=62328&r=mysqlcfg