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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] A moving instance
From: tony@daylessday.org (Antony Dovgal)

On 30.01.2008 18:30, Lars Strojny wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've recently stumbled upon the following issue: when calling a
> non-static function statically from a non-static class, the instance
> magically moves to the called class. It throws a strict warning, but I
> wonder if this is enough. The attached example produces "Foo".
> 
> cu, Lars

Is this what you mean?

"$this is a reference to the calling object (usually the object to which 
the method belongs, but can be another object, if the method is called 
statically from the context of a secondary object)."

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.basic.php

-- 
Wbr, 
Antony Dovgal