API	Package	Subpackage	Class	Method	Reference	Last reviewed	Doc status
Home	Joomla.Framework	Base	JObject	toString	toString()	Never	Work in Progress

Object-to-string conversion. This function is empty and can be redefined by subclasses.

string toString ()

In the base class, this function returns the name of the class to which the object belongs.

$object = new JObject();
echo $object->toString();

Might produce:

jobject

Note: In PHP 4 get_class() returns a user defined class name in lowercase, but in PHP 5 it will return the class name in it’s original notation.

In PHP 5 the above example would produce:

JObject