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Laravel MessageBag Public API: __toString

By John Koster

When a MessageBag instance is cast into a string, its JSON representation is returned as the result. Internally this is accomplished by returning the result of the toJson method.

 1<?php

 2

 3use Illuminate\Support\MessageBag;

 4

 5// Create a new MessageBag instance.

 6$messageBag = new MessageBag([

 7    'first' => ['The first message']

 8]);

 9

10// Cast the MessageBag into a string.

11$stringValue = (string) $messageBag;

After the above code executes, the $stringValue variable would contain the following value:

1{"first":["The first message"]}

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