Hello,

Are you using a custom and outdated build of 5.2.4 ?

$classname::$member was introduced in php5.2.4 but removed
before the actual release, and is now only present as of PHP5.3.

Regards

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Nathan Nobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> hello all,
>
> this is my maiden voyage on the internals list.  recently i have discovered
> functionality that existed in php-5.2.4 that missing in php-5.2.5 and also
> php-5.2.6_rc3.  i have posted to the php-general list and to the php-qa
> list
> and not received any sort of feedback about this discovery.  primarily, in
> php-5.2.4 variables could be used to hold the name of a class and used to
> access static members (both attributes and methods) as well as constants.
> there was other related support as well.  please see the archived post on
> the qa list for details,
> http://marc.info/?l=php-qa&m=120901795414161&w=2
> there you will see i have prepared phpt tests and run them on php-5.2.4 and
> php-5.2.6_rc3 installs.
>
> im curious if support was intentionally removed or if it was an oversight?
> if so, is this something that could be forward ported from php-5.2.4?  i
> would be willing to work on a patch if that were the case.
>
> thanks,
>
> -nathan
>



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