Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=62860&edit=1
ID: 62860
Comment by: matthew dot bonner at gmail dot com
Reported by: michaelduff2 at yahoo dot com
Summary: Moar magic methods! __constructStatic(),
__getStatic(), __setStatic(), __get
Status: Open
Type: Feature/Change Request
Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: Irrelevant
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
The additional magic methods with static support have been requested over and over for well over 5
years now. Is PHP a dying language because the developers don't have the time to provide
essential functionality?
There are so many hacks going about now to try and provide essential functionality and there is so
much messy code all over the place to support what should be part of PHP 5 as standard.
Sorry for my raving and ranting but the reputation of PHP is being severely damaged by not providing
the essentials.
.NET has static accessor and mutator support, Java does too. All the big languages do apart from
PHP.
class PLEASE_SUPPORT_AT_A_MINIMUM {
public static function __construct () {}
public static function __set ($propertyName, $propertyValue) {}
public static function __get ($propertyName) {}
public function setConstDynamically () {
const Foo = 'foo';
echo self::Foo;
}
}
Otherwise I will fork PHP and provide this essential functionality myself which will ultimately
result in the death of the original PHP.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-08-18 20:03:22] michaelduff2 at yahoo dot com
Description:
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__constructStatic() - executed automatically on class definition
__getStatic() - executed when ClassName::$inaccessible_property is fetched
__setStatic() - executed when ClassName::$inaccessible_property is modified
The particular use case I have for this is self-loading configuration registry singletons:
<?php7
namespace Company;
class Config
{
protected static $settings;
function __constructStatic($property)
{
static::$settings = parse_ini_file('config.ini');
}
function __getStatic($property)
{
return static::$settings[$property];
}
}
echo Config::$DB_USER;
?>
Currently, I accomplish this with __callStatic() which needs the extra open-close parenthesis.
Ideally, we could get rid of the '$' too, but that would need some __getConst() magic,
which is just madness.
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