Static Methods/Variables

Neko_D

For a project I am doing I need info stored in a static variable that is in an abstract class. The problem is that I have several different abstract classes that hold variables of the same name. I pull the names of the abstract class names out of a database. How can I use the results from that query to call the static method?

I want to do something like:

$db = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "passwd");
$dbres = mysql_query("SHOW databases");

while($adb = mysql_fetch_array($dbres))
{
  echo sprintf("<div>%s</div>", $adb[0]::$staticVariable);
}

Any suggestions for how I might accomplish this?

NogDog

If using PHP 5.3.0+, you can refer to a class via a variable, e.g.:

echo $classname::staticVar;

In any earlier version, all I can think of is to use eval():

eval('echo ' . $className . '::staticVar;');

Neko_D

NogDog wrote:
If using PHP 5.3.0+, you can refer to a class via a variable, e.g.:
echo $classname::staticVar;
In any earlier version, all I can think of is to use eval():
eval('echo ' . $className . '::staticVar;');

Damn MAMP and not having PHP 5.3.

Thanks eval does the trick. A quick not though is that static variables, when called with the classname, need a $ in front of them. And in eval in order to make the eval evaluate the line of code correctly you need to escape the $.

Thanks for the help