Re: Class::__construct() vs. $this->__construct()

Hans L wrote: >> I know that $this is still available when making a static call on an >> instantiated class in PHP 4, but my understanding is: >> >> - It's Bad(tm), in the same way returning from a constructor is Bad(tm). >> - It's ambiguous; if you have 3 instances, which one does $this point >> at? >> - It doesn't work in PHP 5 (or won't work in a future version) > > > Yeah, it doesn't work in PHP5 -- since 5.0.0 or earlier AFAIR. You > also cannot call a non-static method statically in PHP5, but that's a > little less related. :) > > -Hans > This merits some clarification. The example does, in fact, work in PHP5. Using $this in a static context does cause an error. However, PHP has this obsession with namespaces and having lots of them ... Demo (it's a bit long): http://zaphod.student.umd.edu/~atrus/namespace_weirdness.php http://zaphod.student.umd.edu/~atrus/namespace_weirdness.phps -Nikolas 'Atrus' Coukouma