[UPHPU] Polymorphism of Static Methods?

[Mac Newbold]

Today at 11:43am, Fred Larsen said:

> This works but probably not a good solution.

It may be the best solution available at this point. It may not be pretty, 
and it may require defining a stub foo() in every class, but hey, it works 
right.

There's also something listed in the comments of the PHP5 OOP Static page 
on php.net that shows a way to do this without adding the parameter, by 
using a backtrace to look up the class that was called, but it is probably 
more fragile.

Mac

> <?
> class A {
>    static function foo($class = __CLASS__) {
>        $bar = call_user_func(array($class,'bar'));
>        print($bar . "\n");
>    }
>    static function bar() { return "Hello, world!"; }
> }
>
> class B extends A {
>    static function foo() {
>        parent::foo(__CLASS__);
>    }
>    static function bar() { return "Hello, Johnny!"; }
> }
>
> A::foo();
> B::foo();
> ?>
>
> Content-type: text/html
> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.0.4
>
> Hello, world!
> Hello, Johnny!



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