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ID: 50029 Comment by: weierophin...@php.net Reported by: marc dot gray at gmail dot com Summary: Weird invoke issue on class as property Status: Analyzed Type: Feature/Change Request Package: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Ubuntu 9.04 PHP Version: 5.3.0 New Comment: I can understand wanting to ensure that collisions between existing methods and invokable properties don't occur, but when there aren't any collisions, it doesn't make sense. I'd argue that the following behavior should be implemented: * If no matching method exists, simply allow invoking. * If a matching method exists, call the method, and raise either an E_NOTICE or E_WARNING indicating the collision. Right now, it's a fairly big WTF moment -- you expect it to work, and instead get an E_FATAL. Copying to a temporary variable is code clutter, particularly when you know the object is invokable. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-11-02 15:58:23] ka...@php.net There was lots of discussion about this, because it could override class methods like: class Test { private $closure; public function __construct() { $this->closure = function() { echo 'Hello World'; }; } public function closure() { echo 'Hello PHP'; } public function call() { $this->closure(); } } $test = new Test; // Call Test::$closure or Test::closure() now? $test->call(); What you need to do is to copy the instance into a variable like: $closoure = $this->closure; $closure(); ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2009-10-29 01:15:36] marc dot gray at gmail dot com Description: ------------ Placing a class with an __invoke method as a property inside another class seems to nullify the invokeability of the original class. Tested on: Ubuntu 9.04, PHP 5.3.0 CentOS 5.3, PHP 5.2.11 ionCube / Suhosin Reproduce code: --------------- class a { function __construct() { } function __invoke() { echo("Invoked\n"); } } $a = new a(); $a(); // Prints: Invoked class b { private $x; function __construct() { $this->x = new a(); $this->x(); } } $b = new b(); // Issues error: undefined method b::x Expected result: ---------------- I expect "new b()" construct to call the class a invoke Actual result: -------------- Undefined method - it doesn't seem to recognise the invokeable class property as actually invokeable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50029&edit=1