Singleton

[Shelly]

I found that in PHP5 the following does not work:

$a = "Foo";
$b = $a::getStaticMe thod();

I've tried {$a}::getStatic Method(); and a few other things. Looking
in the manual, Example 2 is just this. However, a user posted on Jan,
4 that this doesn't work (just as I found out today). Is this a bug?

Does anyone have a work-around? (I am not looking forward to doing an
eval instead).

Shelly

[Shelly]

Re: Singleton

On Jan 24, 5:07 pm, Shelly <sheldo...@thev illages.netwrot e:

I found that in PHP5 the following does not work:
>
$a = "Foo";
$b = $a::getStaticMe thod();
>
I've tried {$a}::getStatic Method(); and a few other things. Looking
in the manual, Example 2 is just this. However, a user posted on Jan,
4 that this doesn't work (just as I found out today). Is this a bug?
>
Does anyone have a work-around? (I am not looking forward to doing an
eval instead).
>
Shelly

An eval worked.

[Rik Wasmus]

Re: Singleton

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 23:44:16 +0100, Shelly <sheldonlg@thev illages.net
wrote:

On Jan 24, 5:07 pm, Shelly <sheldo...@thev illages.netwrot e:

>I found that in PHP5 the following does not work:
>>
>$a = "Foo";
>$b = $a::getStaticMe thod();
>>
>I've tried {$a}::getStatic Method(); and a few other things. Looking
>in the manual, Example 2 is just this. However, a user posted on Jan,
>4 that this doesn't work (just as I found out today). Is this a bug?
>>
>Does anyone have a work-around? (I am not looking forward to doing an
>eval instead).
>>
>Shelly

>
An eval worked.

Eval is evil.

I could have sworn it would work as the example BTW, apparantly not.
Preferable to eval would be:

$b = call_user_func( array($a,'getSt aticMethod'),$a nd,$some,$argum ents);
or
$b =
call_user_func_ array(array($a, 'getStaticMetho d'),array($and, $some,$argument s));
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Rik Wasmus