How __toString works in this example?

Question

So I found this problem:

// name1.php
namespace Examples\Names;
class Name {
    public function __toString() {
        return "Laurel";
    }
    public static function get() {
        return "Eminent";
    }
}

// name2.php
namespace Examples;
include "name1.php";
class Name {
    public function __toString() {
        return "James";
    }
    public static function get() {
        return "Cook";
    }
}

echo new Name() . " | " . Names\Name::get();

And I would like to understand why this echo echo new Name() . " | " . Names\Name::get(); take displays James | Eminent. I think that I got it about second second part Names\Name::get() that it takes from Examples\Names\Name Eminent because it has that get, but what about first part? Why it takes James by default?

Also, when I try to remove switch from Names\Name::get() to Names\Name() just to see if it display __toString from second class - Cook it doesn't work and I get this error Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function Examples\Names\Name() in C

Can you help me with that? I really want to understand. Thank you!

Answer 1

what about first part

...it uses the class from the Examples namespace because it's in the same namespace as the echo statement. And it echoes James because of the __toString - that serves as the default function called behind the scenes by PHP whenever you try to put an object into a string.

switch from Names\Name::get() to Names\Name()

... it would need to be new Names\Name() I think, if you want to instantiate the class.