From eba4fa61288e5beceaaab4b552b18cf68e3b34f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joey Smith <joey@php.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 00:37:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix #38935, document changes in PHP5 when casting objects to
 arrays.

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@220546 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/types.xml | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/language/types.xml b/language/types.xml
index 8b940384e8..f5f54a3b8f 100644
--- a/language/types.xml
+++ b/language/types.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.167 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.168 $ -->
  <chapter id="language.types">
   <title>Types</title>
 
@@ -1820,7 +1820,33 @@ $error_descriptions[8] = "This is just an informal notice";
     <para>
      If you convert an <type>object</type> to an array, you get the
      properties (member variables) of that object as the array's elements. 
-     The keys are the member variable names.
+     The keys are the member variable names with a few notable exceptions:
+      private variables have the class name prepended to the variable name;
+      protected variables have a '*' prepended to the variable name.
+     These prepended values have null bytes on either side. This can result
+     in some unexpected behaviour.
+      <informalexample>
+       <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+<?php
+
+class A {
+	private $A; // This will become '\0A\0A'
+}
+
+class B extends A {
+	private $A; // This will become '\0B\0A'
+	public $AA; // This will become 'AA'
+}
+
+var_dump((array) new B());
+?>
+]]>
+       </programlisting>
+      </informalexample>
+
+     The above will appear to have two keys named 'AA', although one
+     of them is actually named '\0A\0A'.
     </para>
     
     <para>