cast-overload.php

<?php

class Request
{

    //...
    
    public function __cast($type) {
    
        switch ($type) {
            case Response::class:
    
                $headers = [];
                //Create fitting headers based on request headers, e.g languages, content-type, compression, caching etc.
    
                return new Response(200, $headers);
            case 'array':
    
                return ['uri' => $this->uri, 'headers' => $this->headers, 'body' => $this->body];
        }
    
    }
}




$response = (Response)$request;