[UPHPU] Child class references static variable of parent instead of its own

[Richard K Miller]

On Aug 17, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Justin Giboney wrote:

> Why does your function have to be static anyways?
> Justin Giboney | www.forodeherbales.com/edge

In my case, these static functions are factories that return objects  
themselves. For example, this statement should return an array of  
objects, of the class Person, for people whose last name is Giboney:

$people = Person::search_by("lastname", "Giboney");

I don't want to have to instantiate a Person object to call the  
search_by() method.