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Subject: bit of an odd bug
From: gareth@fission.org.uk (Gareth Ardron)

Ok, I'm in need of a sanity check here.

step one:
$input = "foo";
$scanning_class = "clamav";
$result = $scanning_class::scanBuffer($input);
now this fails with a "Parse error: parse error, unexpected 
T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM"

So ok, you can't put variables at the front on a class call like that. 
Minor bug I'm thinking at this point, but I wonder if I can work round 
it. So, onto step two:
$input = "foo";
$scanning_class = "clamav";
$func = $scanning_class."::scanBuffer";
$result = $func($input);
Which fails with a "Fatal error: Call to undefined function 
clamav::scanBuffer()"

Just doing:
$result = clamav::scanBuffer($input);
of course works absolutly fine.

Somebody just tell me that this isn't exactly expected behaviour and 
it's a minor bug

this is all on 5.0.3 btw.

Cheers.

-- 
Gareth Ardron