Posted by Michael Fesser on 10/08/07 22:20

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>I have to call a bunch of static functions where class names are
>stored in a array.
>So I have: $my_array = array("class_1","class_2", ... and so on...)
>
>So I tried this piece of code to call static functions attached to
>each classes like that:
>
>foreach($my_array as $classname)
> $classname::MyStaticFunc(...);
>
>..and I get this error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected
>T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM (by the way, if someone could tell me what
>language is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM..) PHP5 can't do it magically..

The T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM is the '::'. For calling a method with a
variable class name use call_user_func() instead:

call_user_func(array($classname, 'MyStaticFunc'));

Micha

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