Re: Common method names part 2

On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Alan Knowles wrote: > Something I've been doing recently is prefixing any methods that are > (or expect) to be called statically with 'static', eg. > object::staticGet(), object::staticAutoLoad().. staticStart() DB_storage seems to use create() too, which brings me a question. How can the code below work? The object is created via:         $classname = get_class($this);         $obj = new $classname($table); But $this is not defined if calling create() statically. DB_Storage::create($foo, $bar) won't work, but $s = new DB_Storage(); $s->create($foo, $bar); works. So create() method isn't actually static? This brings me back to an old question. Is there a way for a static method to know into which class it belongs to? -cut-   /**      * Static method used to create new DB storage objects.      * @param $data assoc. array where the keys are the names      *              of properties/columns      * @return object a new instance of DB_storage or a subclass of it      */     function &create($table, &$data)     {         $classname = get_class($this);         $obj = new $classname($table);         reset($data);         while (list($name, $value) = each($data)) {             $obj->_properties[$name] = true;             $obj->$name = &$value;         }         return $obj;     } -cut- -- Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/