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Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 23:20:05 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [patch] Dynamic access of static members/methods, and constants
From: helly@php.net (Marcus Boerger)

Hello Etienne,

  besides a tiny bit of whitespace issues the patch looks fine. Actually we
use tabs at the beginning of lines here (prior and after |'s). Once you got
more people looking/commenting on the patch we mde decide whetehr to apply
it.

best regards
marcus

Tuesday, March 6, 2007, 4:06:55 PM, you wrote:

> Hi,

> It may have already been proposed, but I give it a shot:
> I believe it would be nice to be able to dynamically reference static 
> members and constants.

> Currently, there is no way to do that and the only way would be to 
> create a static method and use call_user_func(array($classname, 'getThat'));

> In other words:

> class A {
>     public static $foo = 'bar';
>     const gee = 'zzz';

>     public static function getFoo() { return self::$foo; }
> }

> $classname = 'A';
> echo $classname::$foo; // bar
> echo $classname::gee; // zzz

> // instead of:
> echo call_user_func(array($classname, 'getFoo'));

> Please take a look at the patch I made for it.

> For consistency purposes, I also implemented $classname::myMethod(); 
> even if it's not required. FWIW, I've no strong feeling about it.

> Regards,




Best regards,
 Marcus