Bug #64337 [NEW]: Static properties overwritten by children

From: nat at nath dot is Operating system: OSX PHP version: Irrelevant Package: *General Issues Bug Type: Bug Bug description:Static properties overwritten by children Description: ------------ If you extend a class, which has a static property, and set that static property, it will overwrite the variable in the parent, not in the child. Test script: --------------- <?php class One { public static $var = 'hi'; } class Two extends One { public static function set($var) { static::$var = $var; } } Two::set('bye'); var_dump(One::$var); Expected result: ---------------- "hi" Actual result: -------------- "bye" -- Edit bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=64337&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.4): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=trysnapshot54 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (trunk): https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=trysnapshottrunk Fixed in SVN: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=fixed Fixed in release: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=needscript Try newer version: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=oldversion Not developer issue: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=support Expected behavior: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=notwrong Not enough info: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=submittedtwice register_globals: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=php4 Daylight Savings: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=dst IIS Stability: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=gnused Floating point limitations: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=float No Zend Extensions: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=64337&r=mysqlcfg