What does this error shows? Object of class Hide could not be converted to string

Question

i have this code

class  Hide {

    private $myname;
    function getmyname()
    {
        $myname = __class__;
        return $myname;
    }
}

class  damu {
    private static $name;
    public function name()

    {
    var_dump($this->name);
        if( $this->name == null ){
               $this->name = new Hide();
          }
          return $this->name;
    }
}

$run = new damu();
echo $run->name();

this giving me an error

Catchable fatal error: Object of class Hide could not be converted to string

what is the meaning of this and how to resolve this.

Answer 1

You're trying to echo a Hide() object, which PHP doesn't know how to convert to a string. This is due to the following lines:

        if( $this->name == null ){
           $this->name = new Hide();
      }
      return $this->name;

and then

echo $run->name();

Instead of echo, try

print_r($run->name());

Answer 2

You return an instance of Hide and try to echo it. Since your implementation does not have a __toString() method, there is no string representation and you get that error. Try this:

$run = new damu();
echo $run->name()->getmyname();

or add a __toString() method to Hide.