Snippet: PHP Calling static class methods
December 1st, 2009 — 11:57am
Given the example class foo:
class foo { public static function myFunc() { return "foo - myFunc"; } } |
The class name is known in the calling context:
echo foo::myFunc(); |
The class name is stored in a php var:
$class_name = "foo"; /** PHP 5.2.x */ echo call_user_func(array($class_name, "myFunc")); /** PHP 5.3.x */ echo $class_name::myFunc(); |
More info on call_user_func: http://es.php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func.php
More info on static keyword: http://es.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.static.php