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PHP ToString() equivalent

I get this error:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class stdClass could not be converted to string

So, my question is, how do I convert an object to a string in PHP? I don’t want to serialize it though.

Just a note: the code I use works in PHP 4, but not in PHP 5

Thanks!

EDIT: I resolved it myself. It was a pain, but I did it. Thanks anyway, everyone 🙂

Answer 1

Why do you need this string? If you just need to visualize it for debugging, you can use var_dump(), print_r(), or $s = print_r($var, 1); to really make it into a string for further theming. If you need to send the object as text to somewhere else (database, Javascript code), you have a choice of serialize, json_encode, XML conversion, and many more, depending on your exact situation.