Re: Unexpected behavior for ::

Hello, Thanks for the info, as pointed out by Sean Coates this is sort of documented, I've submited a documentation (problem/)bug report. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60499 E_STRICT was disabled since a large part of the application was moved to php 5 only last year and, even if i was aware that it is possible to call non-static methods in a static way, i didn't expect this to work. On 12/12/2011 16:12, Etienne Kneuss wrote:

Hi, On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 14:35, Bogdan Bezuz<bogdan.bezuz@emag.ro> wrote:

Hello, I'm not sure if this is the desired behavior and i don't want to submit a bogus bug report. class A {

    public function f1()
    {
        var_dump($this->_b);
    }

} class B {

    public $_b = 'stuff';

    public function f2()
    {
        A::f1();
    }

} $b = new B(); $b->f2(); At first i would expect an error since A was not instantiated, at most i would expect to return NULL but not 'stuff'. Is this a bug ?

Not really, it's a BC compatibility that we had to drag since PHP4. If you enable E_STRICT, it should output a warning saying something like "importing $this from invalid context". It is/was scheduled for cleanup in the next major version. Best,

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