[SOLVED] Static property question

[emehrkay]

I've been trying different things for about an hour while making no real headway.

 

I want to have a static property, but I need to be able to call it from a variable that defines the class name.

 

class test{
    public static foo = 'bar';
}

 

Sometimes I need to access foo statically and other times I need to access it from an instance that has been dynamically created.

 

$class = 'test';
$class::variable; //not possible, you get that double something error

$instance = new $class();
$instance->variable; //not possible either because of the static keyword

 

What do I do?

Thanx

[emehrkay]

BTW, I really really dont want to create a method that would return that static property because I am trying to keep it as simple as possible

 

public function getFoo(){

return self::foo;

}

[emehrkay]

It looks like it is an error that was fixed in 5.3.

 

Adding that method seems to be the best solution.

 

Look in the comments:

http://us2.php.net/language.oop5.static

 

Damn, I do not want to add that method just to get to that property

[emehrkay]

I caved in and just created a static function that returns the value that i once had in the propery

 

public static function foo(){

return 'bar';

}

 

and I will just access it by doing test::foo(); instead of test::$foo;

[448191]

Calling test::Foo() is no more dynamic than calling test::FOO (a class constant) or test::$foo (a static property).