How to resolve “must be an instance of string, string given” prior to PHP 7?

Question

Here is my code:

function phpwtf(string $s) {
    echo \"$s\\n\";
}
phpwtf(\"Type hinting is da bomb\");

Which results in this error:

Answer 1

Maybe not safe and pretty but if you must:

class string
{
    private $Text;
    public function __construct($value)
    {
        $this->Text = $value;
    }

    public function __toString()
    {
        return $this->Text;
    }
}

function Test123(string $s)
{
    echo $s;
}

Test123(new string("Testing"));