Comments on: __toString method is not so magic before PHP 5.2! http://blog.netinfluence.com/2009/08/14/__tostring-is-not-so-magic-before-php-5-2/ le blog de l'agence netinfluence Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:22:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Macmade http://blog.netinfluence.com/2009/08/14/__tostring-is-not-so-magic-before-php-5-2/comment-page-1/#comment-48 Macmade Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:22:42 +0000 http://blog.netinfluence.ch/?p=49#comment-48 <p>This issue only affects string concatenation.<br /> Prior to PHP 5.2, the __toString() method is called only when the object is printed directly.</p> <p>So the following will work, even if that's ugly... ; )</p> <p>print 'There is a ';<br /> print $Car;<br /> print ' and a ';<br /> print $redCar;</p> This issue only affects string concatenation.
Prior to PHP 5.2, the __toString() method is called only when the object is printed directly.

So the following will work, even if that’s ugly… ; )

print ‘There is a ‘;
print $Car;
print ‘ and a ‘;
print $redCar;

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