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Date: Fri,  2 Jul 2004 17:51:36 +0300
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Please confirm behaviour of ZEND_ACC_STATIC
From: php@hristov.com (Andrey Hristov)

Quoting l0t3k <cshmoove@bellsouth.net>:

> in my extension, i have a class which has methods which work slightly
> differently depending on whether or not they are called statically.
> as an example :
>
>    $original = new UnicodeString("HELLO WORLD","utf8");
>    $lower = UnicodeString::toLowerCase($original);    /* returns a new copy
> */
>    $lower1 = $original->toLowerCase();  /* original is lowercased. return a
> reference */
>
>  the latter is for efficiency. imagine chains like
>        print_r($original->reverse()->toTitleCase()->split(" "));  /* no
> intermediaries created  work on $original*/
>
> while the former allows for transformations without affecting the original
> string.
>
> since the method can behave statically, it is marked as ZEND_ACC_STATIC.
> however it appears that once marked as such,
> getThis() always reports NULL. i've confirmed that marking it as non static
> cause the object to be properly passed.

Yepp, I have experienced this and forced myself to add methodNameS (the S is for
static)
method to have static calls available.

> is this a WAD. if so, is it possible (at least for internal functions) for a
> method to be called statically as well as in an object context ?
>
> l0t3k
>

andrey