PHP Type Hinting: array supported, object NOT?
- by Marius Burz
Am I missing something or there really is no support for generic object type hinting in PHP 5.x?
I find it really strange that hinting arrays is supported while hinting objects is not, at least not out of the box.
I'd like to have something like this:
function foo(object $o)
Just as we have:
function foo(array $o)
Example of possible use: methods of an objects collection class.
Workaround: using an interface "Object" implemented by all classes or extending all classes from a generic class "Object" and writing something like this:
function foo(Object $o)
Well, that just ain't cute.
Edit: somebody suggested in a deleted post using stdClass. It doesn't work:
Catchable fatal error: Argument 1
passed to c::add() must be an instance
of stdClass, instance of b given
