Calling a member function on non-object

[Anon]

Hi there. I've searched everywhere and can't seem to find the answer to this. Does anyone know if it's possible to reference a method in a Class without having to instantiate it? I know this is possible in other OOP languages.

eg.

Class Foo
{
function foobar(param)
{
do stuff
return something
}
}

Now can I make a call to foobar directly from outside code?

$Foo->foobar("bob") simply gives the old "call to member function on non-object" error msg. If this was Java, I could do call: Foo.foobar("bob") no prob. Is this functionality in PHP or no? Just curious. Thanks!

[flipis]

First, you have to declare an instance of the object.

eg.

Class Foo
{
function foobar(param)
{
do stuff
return something
}
}

$NeoFoo = new Foo();
$NeoFoo->foobar(20);

Hope this helps

fLIPIS

[madmada]

Thanks for the reply, but I was looking for a way to use the method WITHOUT declaring an instance of the object first. I have come to the conclusion that this is not supported in PHP.

Thanks,

Adam