Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: [PHP] calling static class functions using a function variable From: Shaun Batterton (shaunb <email protected>)
Date: 01/17/01

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

> > Hi all,
> > Hope you can help. I have an class called xml and a class method called
> > hi_handler. I am able to call this method statically as follows:
> >
> > xml::hi_handler($attrs);
> >
> > but when I try to call it like this, it fails miserably:
> >
> > $junk="xml::hi_handler";
> > $junk();
> >
> > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: xml::hi_handler()
> >
> > Any ideas - besides the obvious way of using a dummy instance. I am using
> > php 4.0.3pl1
>
> I wouldn't have expected that to work, but I did expect something like:
>
> xml::$func()
>
> to work. However I just tested it and it doesn't. Perhaps something that
> can be fixed.
>
> -Rasmus

That would be nice. Do you foresee any way to call a static function like
$class::$fun()?

-Shaun 

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