Re: Question on PHP 6 and static calls to instance methods.

From: Date: Sun, 04 May 2008 03:43:44 +0000
Subject: Re: Question on PHP 6 and static calls to instance methods.
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You would have better luck posing this question to the internals list: internals@lists.php.net Cheers, Rob. On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 17:32 -0400, Adam Richardson wrote: > I've incorporated use of the ability to call instance methods through > static calls, allowing for me to mimic multiple inheritance without > having to make edits to classes that are already working because of > the behavior of '$this' when instance methods are called statically. > > As stated on in the basics section on classes and objects: > > "$this is a reference to the calling object (usually the object to > which the method belongs, but can be another object, if the method is > called statically from the context of a secondary object)." > > I've made great use of that functionality in my framework. However, > It sounds like this is going to cause a fatal error in PHP6. Is this > in fact true? And, if the behavior is going to change, can somebody > explain what the impetus for this change was? > > Thank you very much for your time, > > Adam > > Adam Richardson > Envision Internet Consulting, LLC > Phone: (517)623-0485 > > Services and insight for building effective, user-oriented websites. > > > -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP

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