Implicit Type Conversion for PHP Classes?

Question

Is there a way to tell the php complier that I want a specific implicit conversion from one type to another?

A simple example:

class Integer
{
  public $         


        

Answer 1

PHP is not strongly typed.

You want something like, whenever you pass an hbool instance into a function that expects a bool it would convert automatically using your implicit conversor.

What happens is that no function "expects" a bool, it's all dynamically typed. You can force an explicit conversion by calling (int)$something but if that's the case you can then pass $something->to_otherthing() instead for non-automatic conversions.

PS: I'm sure im not being clear here. I will try to edit this answer after I eat something :)