[RESOLVED] shoot me now. OOP, Static function, headache

omegared

So I am new to OOP but I've been very excited to work with it. Until today.

Here is the problem and a watered down version of the code.

I have a class

class Thing(){
static function display($part){
//it does more than this.
echo($part);
}
}

now I want to be able to use this in a script.
<html>
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<?php Thing::display('Hello world') ?>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

For some bloody reason the html that gets render like this. Thanks in advance. BTW I am using 6.3.

<html>
<body>
Hello world
<table>
<tr>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>

omegared

I figured it out.

echo('<tr><td>'.Thing::display('Hello world').'</td></tr>');

It's a double echo, once in the class and once in the script. Why it places the item above the HTML, I don't know.