Actually this lead me to a solution that didn't use the static array
at all. I really just wanted the child class to be able to map some
strings. So I just some if return blocks in the overridden method:
protected function mapName($name)
{
if ($name === 'foo') return 'bar';
Hi,
if I understood your issue correctly, then in C++, Java, and PHP5 you'd do
something like this:
abstract class Foo {
public function doit()
{
echo $this->gettext();
}
abstract protected function gettext();
}
class Bar extends Foo {
static $msg = "this is some text\n";
public function gettex
On 12/20/07, John Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Humm...
>
> The only thing I can think of is to do something like:
> $v = get_class_vars(get_class($this));
> print_r($v['_staticvar']);
This does work in my case.
But, I the code could get invoked quite a bit which makes me wonder if
the ov
At 10:13 PM 12/19/2007, Michael B Allen wrote:
I have a bunch of subclasses that define a static varible that I need
to access in the parent class. So I'm trying something like:
$_staticvarname = get_class($this) . '::$_staticvar';
Try using double quotes instead of single quotes:
$_staticvar
