== Quote from Greg Beaver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])'s article
> <?php
> class foo {
> static function bar()
> {
> echo 'hello';
> }
> }
>
> $bar = 'hello';
> $a = new foo;
> $a->bar(); // this could be disabled to error out easily
> $a::bar(); // my patch now allows this to print "hello"
> $a::$bar(); // this also works
> $a::{'bar'}(); // even this works
> ?>
The idea is good, but the syntax "$a::bar()" seems to me that $a is the name of the
class, not an instance.
I would prefer that PHP supports:
$class = get_class($a);
$class::bar();
or, to make it shorter:
get_class($a)::bar();
Anyway, if you need to call a class method, but you only know an instance of it, this
is certainly because the class was not properly defined. A class method is a method
that applies to the class, not instances. And a method that does not need to use $this
is not necessarily a class method.
Stephane
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