Php/docs/function.forward-static-call
forward_static_call
(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7)
forward_static_call — Call a static method
Description
Calls a user defined function or method given by the function
parameter, with the following arguments. This function must be called within a method
context, it can't be used outside a class.
It uses the late static
binding.
Parameters
function- The function or method to be called. This parameter may be an array, with the name of the class, and the method, or a string, with a function name.
args- Zero or more parameters to be passed to the function.
Return Values
Returns the function result, or FALSE on error.
Examples
Example #1 forward_static_call() example
<?phpclass A{ const NAME = 'A'; public static function test() { $args = func_get_args(); echo static::NAME, " ".join(',', $args)." \n"; }}class B extends A{ const NAME = 'B'; public static function test() { echo self::NAME, "\n"; forward_static_call(array('A', 'test'), 'more', 'args'); forward_static_call( 'test', 'other', 'args'); }}B::test('foo');function test() { $args = func_get_args(); echo "C ".join(',', $args)." \n"; }?>
The above example will output:
B B more,args C other,args
See Also
- forward_static_call_array() - Call a static method and pass the arguments as array
- call_user_func_array() - Call a callback with an array of parameters
- call_user_func() - Call the callback given by the first parameter
- is_callable() - Verify that the contents of a variable can be called as a function
