Re: issues with classnames, staic class members and constants as variables

Hello, Are you using a custom and outdated build of 5.2.4 ? $classname::$member was introduced in php5.2.4 but removed before the actual release, and is now only present as of PHP5.3. Regards On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:53 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > hello all, > > this is my maiden voyage on the internals list. recently i have discovered > functionality that existed in php-5.2.4 that missing in php-5.2.5 and also > php-5.2.6_rc3. i have posted to the php-general list and to the php-qa > list > and not received any sort of feedback about this discovery. primarily, in > php-5.2.4 variables could be used to hold the name of a class and used to > access static members (both attributes and methods) as well as constants. > there was other related support as well. please see the archived post on > the qa list for details, > http://marc.info/?l=php-qa&m=120901795414161&w=2 > there you will see i have prepared phpt tests and run them on php-5.2.4 and > php-5.2.6_rc3 installs. > > im curious if support was intentionally removed or if it was an oversight? > if so, is this something that could be forward ported from php-5.2.4? i > would be willing to work on a patch if that were the case. > > thanks, > > -nathan > -- Etienne Kneuss http://www.colder.ch Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. -- Pascal