From 522628555a422fe7bebf9189cf3f0db930bea39a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Happy-melon <happy-melon@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 15:12:54 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Implement __toString() magic method for Message objects

---
 includes/Message.php | 16 ++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/includes/Message.php b/includes/Message.php
index 4dd1a655c2..61f561513b 100644
--- a/includes/Message.php
+++ b/includes/Message.php
@@ -256,12 +256,6 @@ class Message {
 
 	/**
 	 * Returns the message parsed from wikitext to HTML.
-	 * TODO: in PHP >= 5.2.0, we can make this a magic method,
-	 * and then we can do, eg:
-	 *     $foo = Message::get($key);
-	 *     $string = "<abbr>$foo</abbr>";
-	 * But we shouldn't implement that while MediaWiki still supports
-	 * PHP < 5.2; or people will start using it...
 	 * @return String: HTML
 	 */
 	public function toString() {
@@ -292,6 +286,16 @@ class Message {
 		
 		return $string;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Magic method implementation of the above (for PHP >= 5.2.0), so we can do, eg:
+	 *     $foo = Message::get($key);
+	 *     $string = "<abbr>$foo</abbr>";
+	 * @return String
+	 */
+	public function __toString() {
+		return $this->toString();
+	}
 	
 	/**
 	 * Fully parse the text from wikitext to HTML
-- 
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