Comments on: PHP “__toString” magic method: not so magic before 5.2.0 http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/ Technology, Software, Linux and System Administration Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:03:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Amaroq http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-3603 Amaroq Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:20:58 +0000 http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-3603 I came across this same problem. I made an image gallery with thumbnail generation and caching, and thoroughly tested it on my personal apache with PHP 5.2.3. Uploaded it to a friend's webspace on her college's server, then had to go visit some family for a week. I come back and find out that instead of displaying thumbnails that link to fullviews, it's displaying object IDs linking to their respective fullviews. I replaced all instances of $obj that were in echoes or in other strings with $obj->__toString(), and everything worked perfect. Had I read this sooner, I would've known I didn't need to alter the actual echoes. Just the other strings. I came across this same problem. I made an image gallery with thumbnail generation and caching, and thoroughly tested it on my personal apache with PHP 5.2.3. Uploaded it to a friend’s webspace on her college’s server, then had to go visit some family for a week. I come back and find out that instead of displaying thumbnails that link to fullviews, it’s displaying object IDs linking to their respective fullviews. I replaced all instances of $obj that were in echoes or in other strings with $obj->__toString(), and everything worked perfect.

Had I read this sooner, I would’ve known I didn’t need to alter the actual echoes. Just the other strings.

]]> By: admin http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-1354 admin Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:05:17 +0000 http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-1354 You are right, my bad on that typo... You are right, my bad on that typo…

]]> By: mezei http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-1320 mezei Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:35:39 +0000 http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-1320 I didn't run the php file, but I think this outputs: Hello World (A) ! Hello World (B) Hello World (A) ! I didn’t run the php file, but I think this outputs:
Hello World (A) !
Hello World (B) Hello World (A) !

]]> By: donald http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-106 donald Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:01:29 +0000 http://www.jcinacio.com/2007/04/19/phps-__tostring-magic-method-not-so-magic-before-520/#comment-106 Nice one! Normally I try to avoid magic functions (because I don't believe in magic), but I thought the __toString() would be useful. I was having the same problem that you are describing here. (did a google search and found your blog). Seems I need to update my php version on my home dev machine. Thanks for the info ;) Nice one!

Normally I try to avoid magic functions (because I don’t believe in magic), but I thought the __toString() would be useful. I was having the same problem that you are describing here. (did a google search and found your blog).

Seems I need to update my php version on my home dev machine. Thanks for the info ;)

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