Bug #16245: Static variables into class member funtions have wrong scope

From: flying@dom.natm.ru Operating system: Windows 2000 PHP version: 4.1.1 PHP Bug Type: Class/Object related Bug description: Static variables into class member funtions have wrong scope Static variables inside member functions of a classes have wrong scope. They should belong to each instance of a class, like normal class properties, but they're belong to class definition instead and, therefore, shared between every instance of this class. It makes static variables unusable into class member variables. Here is an example: // Define class class A { var $id = null; function A($id) { $this->id = $id; } function func() { // Here we have counter into static variable static $cnt; if (!$cnt) $cnt = 0; // Show counter value and ID of a class instance echo $this->id.": ".($cnt++)."\n"; } }; // Create 2 instances of our class with different IDs $a = new A('A'); $b = new A('B'); // Call method of each class instance twice and see, // what will happen $a->func(); $b->func(); $a->func(); $b->func(); Expected results: ----------------- A: 0 B: 0 A: 1 B: 1 Actual results: --------------- A: 0 B: 1 A: 2 B: 3 -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=16245&edit=1 -- Fixed in CVS: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=fixedcvs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=needtrace Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=16245&r=submittedtwice