Class_Name::$_static_property

[guillermobytes]

Hi,
sorry for the title the problem is hard to describe in so few characters.

i need to be able to get a static class property from a dynamic class name:

i have a class name stored as a string:

$className = 'My_Class_Name';

and i need to call a static property of that class, normally i would do:

My_Class_Name::$staticProperty;

but the class name changes dynamically, so i cannot hard type it like here up. so i need to do something like this:

$className::$staticProperty;

is this correct or will it crash?

thanks!

[dlite922]

it will crash. syntax error:

But you can use eval(), like so:

class foo
{
    public static $bar = 'It Works!'; 
}

$my_class = 'foo'; 
$my_static= 'bar';

echo eval("return $my_class::\$$my_static;");

The output is:

It Works!

Cheers,


Dan

[zorgi]

From PHP Version 5.3 it should not crash and you can do what guillermobytes suggests.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php