Re: Getting static member for a class which name is stored

Jake Press wrote:

Simas Toleikis wrote:

Jake Press wrote:

Hi Francisco, Your not alone, a number of other users have enountered this bug.

string get_class ( object obj ) Its not a bug... You are getting class name as a string for output purposes etc.. Doing something like "TestClass"::some_static is ofcourse illegal wih strings.

Morning, Umm, it is an unclear syntax limitation, which is a bug. ... either language or manual. i understand what you are saying, i beleive i disclaimer'd my own examples somewhere down the line in those threads ;) i beleive there should be a better way to do this without: - using reflection - instantiating the class and using a method to retrieve the variable - eval Also please notice the existance of the "call_user_func" and what this gives us ;) = this gives us a solution (workaround??) to access static functions within a class Perhaps we need a similar function to provide access to our static variables! :)

How about: <?php class Myclass {

    public static $myvar = "easy enough";

} echo Myclass::$myvar; ?> The only problem is if you want to be able to generically access a static variable from any class that has it, like $Myclass::$myvar. Greg