Req #54897 [NEW]: Allow class methods to determine whether they're being called statically or not

From: Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 08:44:01 +0000
Subject: Req #54897 [NEW]: Allow class methods to determine whether they're being called statically or not
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PHP version:      Irrelevant
Package:          Unknown/Other Function
Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
Bug description:Allow class methods to determine whether they're being called statically or not

Description:
------------
At the moment there is no reliable way to determine whether a function is
being 
called statically or on an object directly. Sometimes it's useful to know
the 
difference between e.g.
foo::createUrl();
and
$foo->createUrl();

it would be nice to have a function, called something like is_static_call()
which 
could supply this information to the current method. I'm not familiar with
the PHP 
internals so I don't know how difficult this is to implement, but for me it
would 
be a useful feature.

Test script:
---------------
class foo {
	public function createUrl($url = null, $params = array()) {
		if ($url === null && is_static_call()) {
			$url = "list";
		}
		elseif ($url === null) {
			$url = "view";
		}
		/* do something */
	}
}


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Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2):            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=trysnapshot52
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Fixed in SVN:                        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=fixed
Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=needdocs
Fixed in release:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                      http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=needscript
Try newer version:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=support
Expected behavior:                   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=globals
PHP 4 support discontinued:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=php4
Daylight Savings:                    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=dst
IIS Stability:                       http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                     http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=float
No Zend Extensions:                  http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=54897&r=mysqlcfg

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