You can use the "static" late static binding keyword for this, it works, see:
http://3v4l.org/l9Z5Y On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Jens Riisom Schultz <ibmu...@me.com>wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have read up on this, and done some testing. > > First up, my findings with PHP5.5 alpha5: > > <?php > namespace spacy; > > class classy { > public static function fqcn() { > /* This works but is not useful enough: */ > //return self::class; > > $me = 'classy'; > > /* This just doesn't work, but I wish it did: */ > //return $me::class; > > /* This simply does not work as expected: */ > return eval("return $me::class;"); > /* Output: "classy" - Expected output: "spacy\classy" */ > } > } > ?> > > I'm trying to late resolve a class name contained in a variable to the > FQCN. I understand that this is hard (maybe even impossible) with the > current implementation, because class name resolution happens compile time, > but eval("return $me::class;") simply returns something that is weird. > > I guess what I'm trying to ask is whether it would be impossible to > support late FQCN resolution in any way? It would be very useful for > frameworks to be able to do this. > > - Jens Riisom Schultz > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
