Tag: magic-methods

Fatal error: Declaration of Foo::toString(): void must be compatible with Stringable::toString(): string

After upgrading to PHP 8 I’m now seeing this Fatal error what’s wrong with my code ? And what is this Stringable? Answer Prior to PHP 8 it was possible for a programmer to write magic methods that have signatures that don’t match the internal signature of them. So for example Although the return type void doesn’t match the method’s

PHP – __call all the time

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Say we have a class with several protected and/or public methods. I need to perform a check each time a method is called. I could do that check each time i call a method : or But i would like developers neither to have to think about it nor to write it. I’ve thought about using __call to do :