Edit report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61275&edit=1
ID: 61275
User updated by: php at mralston dot com
Reported by: php at mralston dot com
Summary: Cannot have class method with same name as language
construct
Status: Duplicate
Type: Bug
Package: Class/Object related
Operating System: Any
PHP Version: 5.4.0
Block user comment: N
Private report: N
New Comment:
Fair enough. I didn't spot that bug report, but I didn't really know what to
search for when I was looking.
I don't quite understand from the other thread why resolving it is difficult,
however as I am not intimately familiar with how PHP operates under the hood I
am willing to accept that there are perfectly valid reasons beyond my
understanding.
I'll +1 the other bug report. :-)
Thanks.
Previous Comments:
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[2012-03-04 18:02:04] [email protected]
This is a duplicate of https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=28261. See there for a
discussion of why this is hard to do.
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[2012-03-04 17:56:12] php at mralston dot com
Changed package field from 'Compile Failure' to 'Class/Object related', as
'Compile Failure' is probably intended to relate to problems compiling PHP
itself,
rather than PHP scripts.
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[2012-03-04 17:52:53] php at mralston dot com
Description:
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It isn't possible to have a class method whose name is the same as any of the
language constructs, e.g. array(), doing so creates a parse error as follows:
PHP Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' in - on line 8
The error message is somewhat cryptic and confusing when it affects code which
looks
otherwise perfectly valid.
This perhaps isn't a big deal for most people as the work around is to rename
your
method. It is a problem when using a different name for the method is
undesirable
(e.g. I'm creating a framework in PHP which emulates that from a different
programming language, so ideally the method names should be the same).
Test script:
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<?php
$test=new testClass();
$test->array();
class testClass
{
public function array()
{
echo("testClass::array() called.");
}
}
?>
Expected result:
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testClass::array() called.
Actual result:
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PHP Parse error: parse error, expecting `T_STRING' in - on line 8
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