Re: Static Array declaration within class PHP5

Marek wrote:

Hello I'm trying to create a public static array within a class.(PHP5). First - the following fails: class yadayada {

        public static $tester[0]="something";         public static $tester[1]="something 1"; 

of course this doesn't (ok so its obvious to me) first of its generally not good form to initialize a var in the class definition but rather do it with a function. often that would be

                       the constructor - but that won't do it this time.

here is how I would do it (given the facts you provided): class Yadda { private static $myArr; public static function getArr() { if (!isset(self::$myArr)) { self::setupArr(); } return self::$myArr; } private static function setupArr() { self::$myArr = array( 0 => 'something', 1 => 'something1', 2 => 'something2', 3 => 'something3', 4 => 'something4', 5 => 'something5', 6 => 'something6', 7 => 'something7', // notice the trailing comma! ); } } print_r( Yadda::getArr() ); btw: I did not syntax check this code.

Second - However the following works: class yadayada {

        public static $tester = array (0 => "something", 1 >="something 1"); 

you are not forced to write the whole array on 1 line :-) also if you are using numeric keys there is no need to write them...: $tester = array ("something", "something 1"); with or with out the keys its the same (assuming you keys start at zero and are always consecutive)

My question is this: I have an array that has about some 150 different values and using the second example would get very very messy, is there another method of doing this ? The first example(which fails) is the cleanest, is there anything I can do ?

by clean do you mean readable per chance? how readable is the class I just defined according to you?

Thank you