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Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:52:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: Get name of extending class with static methodcall (PHP5)
From: roehr@zilleon.com ("Torsten Roehr")

"Andrey Hristov" <php@hristov.com> wrote in message
news:41E774CA.8040808@hristov.com...
> Christian Schneider wrote:
> > Torsten Roehr wrote:
> >
> >> Something so straightforward and fundamental should be possible!?!
> >
> >
> > Maybe is isn't as fundamental as you think? I never came across this
> > problem in years of PHP programming. But then again I use classes with
> > static calls for nothing but separate namespaces :-)
> >
> > I'm pretty sure there is another (possibly more elegant) solution. This
> > is not a flame but a suggestion to rethink the problem you are trying to
> > solve.
> >
> > - Chris
> >
>   Hi Chris,
> I have faced this limitation of the languagee when I was trying to
simplify
> code which uses Singleton and uses to have n-time the code for caching
> copied around. Every new class that one subclass has to copy the code. A
bit
> overwork, isn't it? At the end we agreed on a solution with __CLASS__ in
the
> extending classes.
>
> class Foo {
>    function getInstanceInt($params, $class_name= __CLASS__) {
>      var_dump($params, $class_name);
>      /*...*/
>    }
> }
> class Bar extends Foo {
>    function getInstance() {
>      Foo::getInstanceInt(func_get_args(), __CLASS__);
>    }
> }
> $a= Bar::getInstance(1,2,3);
>
> So the getInstance() in the subclasses is quite simple. One also
> may declare argument names. Here I haven't done that for simplicity.
>
> Regards,
> Andrey

Hi Andrey,

thanks for your posts. It seems that this is the only viable solution -
passing the class name in as a parameter.

Thanks and best regards, Torsten Roehr