From: rael at grad dot icmc dot usp dot br Operating system: Windows XP Professional SP2 PHP version: 5.0.1 PHP Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Bug description: Why static properties cannot be overwrite?
Description: ------------ I'm a longer time java programmer, and I'm trying PHP5. But, for my surprise, I saw that static properties cannot be overwrite. Why? This make not sense! Reproduce code: --------------- class a { protected static $v = "aa"; public static function foo(){ echo self::$v; } } class b extends a{ protected static $v = "bb"; public static function foo(){ echo self::$v; } } Expected result: ---------------- No runtime error Actual result: -------------- Cannot redeclare property static protected a::$v in class b -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=32331&edit=1 -- Try a CVS snapshot (php4): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=trysnapshot4 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=trysnapshot50 Try a CVS snapshot (php5.1): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=trysnapshot51 Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=globals PHP 3 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=php3 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=32331&r=mysqlcfg