Question

The problem is the following: We are creating an instance of a class testObject and fill a var with a double.

A class TestExcel extends from PhpExcel and when submitting the object testObject into the constructor we get a scientific notation of the var when we do a var_dump.

Can anyone help us out. My colleagues and I don’t understand how it is possible that the content of an instance can be changed by extending the phpExcel class.

When we don’t do the extension, the var_dump returns the correct notation. — 200000 When doing the extension we get the scientific notation — 2.0E+5

// instance of the testObject  $number = new testObject(); $number->setNumber((double)200000);  // contruct testExcelClass $excel = new TestExcel($number);   // Class TestObject       class testObject {        private $number;        public function setNumber($number){           $this->number = $number;       }        public function getNumber(){           return $this->number;       }  }  // class test excell extends from phpexcel (http://www.codeplex.com/PHPExcel)  class TestExcel extends PHPExcel  {      private $number;      public function __construct($number){       parent::__construct();        $this->number = $number;       print_r($this->number); exit();      }  } 

Answer 1

it seemed to be a problem in PHP 5.2.6 that displayed the wrong notation.

php 5.2.8 solved this bug.