Re: Class Static variables in double quoted string or heredoc

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Jason Pruim <japruim@raoset.com> wrote: > > On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Leurent Francois <131.php@cloudyks.org> >> wrote: >> >> Is there any hope that >>> echo "Welcome {session::$user_info['user_name']}"; >>> >>> will work someday, if not, is there a simple reason i'm missing ? >>> >> >> >> actually, if you see my post from the other day, this is something that >> *was* supported in php-5.2.4. i dont know why its not working in 5.2.5; >> ive >> also checked 5.2.6_rc3 and its not working there either. i have written >> some phpt tests and run them on a 5.2.4 install and a 5.2.6_rc3 install; >> you >> can find the details on a post to the php-qa list from a couple of days >> back >> (that i posted after a lack of interest from the php-general list :O) >> >> http://marc.info/?l=php-qa&m=120901795414161&w=2 >> > > is there a reason why that would work better then: echo "Welcome > {$_SESSION['user_info']['user_name']}";? > > Just curious :) i think the question is more along the lines of why cant static references be embedded within double quoted strings like class instances (and indirectly the issue i mentioned earlier this week, which affords a workaround), as in <?php class Session { function blah() {} } $s = new Session(); echo "Hi {$s->blah()} \n"; ?> whereas this doesnt work <?php class Session { static function blah() {} } echo "Hi {Session::blah()} \n"; ?> the funny thing is, in php-5.2.4, you can get away w/ this <?php class Session { static function blah() {} } $s = 'Session'; echo "Hi {$s::blah()} \n"; ?> -nathan