How to access the per-class constant from a member function?

Hi Mehdi,
Even Foo::HELLO works.
My question is why simple HELLO inside a member function does not work.

Why are we not able to access the static and const members of a class
from inside a class member function like the way with other member
variables.?

Any special reasons.

With regards
Kamesh Jayachandran
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 18:10:52 +0200, "Mehdi Achour" didou@php.net said:

Hi Kamesh,

Try replacing Foo::HELLO with self::HELLO. This should work.
(this is documented, the manual will reflect it in the next build)

didou

Kamesh Jayachandran wrote:

Hi All,
<?php
class Foo {
const HELLO = "con\n";
function memberfunc() {
echo HELLO; //does not work
echo Foo::HELLO; //works
}
}
$obj = new Foo();
$obj->memberfunc();
?>

With a error_reporting=2047 I get

Notice: Use of undefined constant HELLO - assumed 'HELLO' in
/rekha/php-5.0.0/test.php on line 5
Whey echo HELLO fails?

With regards
Kamesh Jayachandran