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  1. Declaring Static Methods in PHP

    10 December 2010

    I was confused recently to realise that I had accidentally called a static method in PHP dynamically from another part of my code; I expected PHP to output warnings when this is done. On closer inspection I discovered that:

    • Static functions can be called dynamically

    • Dynamic functions generate an E_STRICT error if called statically

    This made a lot more sense when I thought about it a bit more and wrote some toy code:

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