{"id":24,"date":"2005-11-15T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/?p=24"},"modified":"2006-06-16T21:06:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-16T21:06:25","slug":"static-variable-variables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Static Variable Variables"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>\r\n&lt;?php\r\n  class A {\r\n    static function b() {\r\n      echo \"It works\\n\";\r\n    }\r\n  }\r\n  $theClass = \"A\";\r\n  $x = new $theClass;\r\n\r\n  \/* Are any of the following legal? Which? *\/\r\n\r\n  A::b();\r\n  $x-&gt;b();\r\n  $theClass::b();\r\n?&gt;\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><spoiler 'Show Answer' 'Hide Answer'>Answer: A::b() and $x-&gt;b() are legal, $theClass::b() is not.<\/spoiler><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;?php class A { static function b() { echo &#8220;It works\\n&#8221;; } } $theClass = &#8220;A&#8221;; $x = new $theClass; \/* Are any of the following legal? Which? *\/ A::b(); $x-&gt;b(); $theClass::b(); ?&gt; Answer: A::b() and $x-&gt;b() are legal, $theClass::b() is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gotchas-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2IBF1-o","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenoyes.com\/littlenoise\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}