Hi,
Going off the subject alone, you might want to investigate the
__tostring() magic method that you can define to handle objects being
cast to a string. Also, there's a whole bunch of magic methods that you
can use to handle PHP operations on user defined objects:
http://uk.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php
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