+1
Nice to be able to do this directly without resorting to call_user_func().
Edom
Etienne Kneuss wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've already proposed that 1-2 months ago, but now seems to be a good
> time to discuss new things, so let's try again:
>
> I believe it would be nice to be able to dynamically reference static
> members, constants, and methods.
>
> Currently, there is no way to do that and the only way would be to
> create a static method and use call_user_func(array($classname,
> 'getThat'));
>
> In other words:
>
> class A {
> public static $foo = 'value1';
> const gee = 'value2';
> public static function bar() { return 'value3'; }
>
> // old way:
> public static function getFoo() { return self::$foo; }
> public static function getGee() { return self::gee; }
>
> }
>
> $classname = 'A';
> echo $classname::$foo; // value1
> echo $classname::gee; // value2
> echo $classname::bar(); // value3
>
> // --- instead of: ---
>
> $classname = 'A';
> echo call_user_func(array($classname, 'getFoo')); // value1
> echo call_user_func(array($classname, 'getGee')); // value2
> echo call_user_func(array($classname, 'bar')); // value3
>
> which is quite slow.
>
> Please take a look at the patch[1] I made for it. Comments would be
> appreciated!
>
> Regards,
>
>
> 1: http://patches.colder.ch/Zend/dynamic-static-calls.patch?markup
>
--
PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List
To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
