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Request #31318 Static method invocation with classname in a variable
Submitted: 2004-12-28 10:35 UTC Modified: 2007-09-27 08:25 UTC
Votes:17
Avg. Score:4.6 ± 0.7
Reproduced:14 of 14 (100.0%)
Same Version:3 (21.4%)
Same OS:9 (64.3%)
From: sebastian@php.net Assigned: colder (profile)
Status: Closed Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-12-28 (dev) OS: Irrelevant
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-12-28 10:35 UTC] sebastian@php.net 
Description:
------------
Static members of a class should be accessible even if the classname is stored in a variable.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php
class Foo {
    public static function bar() {
        print 'Foo::bar()';
    }
}

$class = 'Foo';
$class::bar();
?>


Expected result:
----------------
Foo::bar()

Actual result:
--------------
Parse error: parse error in D:\foo.php on line 9

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 [2005-05-02 11:59 UTC] andrey@php.net 
ReflectionAPI?
 [2005-05-10 01:00 UTC] php-bugs at lists dot php dot net 
No feedback was provided for this bug for over a week, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".
 [2006-01-31 15:49 UTC] markus at cultcom dot de 
This still does'nt work and I would realy like to see this working because it is very ugly to use
eval("return $className::method();") as a workaround...
 [2006-01-31 17:51 UTC] phoeniks at nm dot ru 
try
$result = call_user_func(array($class, 'bar'));
 [2007-08-13 15:51 UTC] l dot lucioni at communicationvalley dot it 
but still exists. why is it not classified as a bug?
 [2007-08-13 16:05 UTC] bjori@php.net 
Thank you for your bug report. This issue has already been fixed
in the latest released version of PHP, which you can download at 
http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Fixed in PHP5.2.4RC1
 [2007-09-27 08:25 UTC] bjori@php.net 
(Was reverted prior to 5.2.4 but committed to 5.3.0)
 
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