Type casting for user defined objects

Question

Just like we do with __ToString, is there a way to define a method for casting?

$obj = (MyClass) $another_class_obj;

Answer 1

I do not believe there is a overloading operator in PHP to handle that, however:

_number = $obj;
    } else if ($obj instanceOf MyNumberClass){
      /// some other type of casting
    }
    return $new;
  }
}

$test = MyClass::castFrom(123123);
var_dump($test);

Is one way to handle it.