Re: [PHP] Question on PHP 6 and static calls to instance methods.
On 5/3/08, Adam Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a quick question on what's coming in PHP 6. I've incorporated use of the ability to call instance methods through static calls, allowing for me to mimic multiple inheritance without having to make edits to classes that are already working because of the behavior of '$this' when instance methods are called statically. As stated on in the basics section on classes and objects: $this is a reference to the calling object (usually the object to which the method belongs, but can be another object, if the method is called statically from the context of a secondary object). I've made great use of that functionality in my framework. However, It sounds like this is going to cause a fatal error in PHP6. Is this in fact true? And, if the behavior is going to change, can somebody explain what the impetus for this change was? this is an interesting feature; i was not previously aware of it. its something akin to javascripts concept of the execution context and the apply(), call() methods. i think it would be better if the class that used the $this keyword whereby it was made to refer to the instance of the caller, have access to the protected members of the other class. i think this would be reasonable because the client has to invoke the method on the class that intends to use the $this keyword in the context of its caller; essentially sanctioning access to protected members. i think the feature would be quite awesome if that were the case and i can imagine instances where i would use it. -nathan
[PHP] Question on PHP 6 and static calls to instance methods.
I have a quick question on what's coming in PHP 6. I've incorporated use of the ability to call instance methods through static calls, allowing for me to mimic multiple inheritance without having to make edits to classes that are already working because of the behavior of '$this' when instance methods are called statically. As stated on in the basics section on classes and objects: $this is a reference to the calling object (usually the object to which the method belongs, but can be another object, if the method is called statically from the context of a secondary object). I've made great use of that functionality in my framework. However, It sounds like this is going to cause a fatal error in PHP6. Is this in fact true? And, if the behavior is going to change, can somebody explain what the impetus for this change was? Thank you very much for your time, Adam Adam Richardson Envision Internet Consulting, LLC Phone: (517)623-0485 Services and insight for building effective, user-oriented websites.
[PHP] Question on PHP 6 and static calls to instance methods.
I've incorporated use of the ability to call instance methods through static calls, allowing for me to mimic multiple inheritance without having to make edits to classes that are already working because of the behavior of '$this' when instance methods are called statically. As stated on in the basics section on classes and objects: $this is a reference to the calling object (usually the object to which the method belongs, but can be another object, if the method is called statically from the context of a secondary object). I've made great use of that functionality in my framework. However, It sounds like this is going to cause a fatal error in PHP6. Is this in fact true? And, if the behavior is going to change, can somebody explain what the impetus for this change was? Thank you very much for your time, Adam Adam Richardson Envision Internet Consulting, LLC Phone: (517)623-0485 Services and insight for building effective, user-oriented websites.
Re: [PHP] Question on PHP 6 and static calls to instance methods.
You would have better luck posing this question to the internals list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Rob. On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 17:32 -0400, Adam Richardson wrote: I've incorporated use of the ability to call instance methods through static calls, allowing for me to mimic multiple inheritance without having to make edits to classes that are already working because of the behavior of '$this' when instance methods are called statically. As stated on in the basics section on classes and objects: $this is a reference to the calling object (usually the object to which the method belongs, but can be another object, if the method is called statically from the context of a secondary object). I've made great use of that functionality in my framework. However, It sounds like this is going to cause a fatal error in PHP6. Is this in fact true? And, if the behavior is going to change, can somebody explain what the impetus for this change was? Thank you very much for your time, Adam Adam Richardson Envision Internet Consulting, LLC Phone: (517)623-0485 Services and insight for building effective, user-oriented websites. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
