Edit Question - KnowledgeHub

Title Body

I need to bea be able to use a static variable set in a class that extends a base class... from the base class. Consider this: class Animal { public static $color = 'black'; public static function get_color() { return self::$color; } } class Dog extends Animal { public static $color = 'brown'; } echo Animal::get_color(); // prints 'black' echo Dog::get_color(); // also prints 'black' This works wonderfully in PHP 5.3.x ( Dog::get_color() prints 'brown') since it has late static binding. But my production server runs PHP 5.2.11 and so I need to adapt my script. Is there a somewhat pretty workaround to solve this issue? Cheers! Christoffer EDIT: The goal As noted below, this is a very much simplified example of what I am trying to accomplish. If I provide you with the two options I have used to solve my problem (and the problem itself) someone might have a different solution than I... I have built a base database model that contains functions like "find", "find_by" and "find_all" (all static). In PHP 5.3 there is a function called get_called_class() which I currently use to determine the called class's name, and then use it to map against the correct database table. Ex class User would point to users . get_called_class() doesn't exist in PHP 5.2.x and the hack implementations I've found are very unreliable. Then I turned to this option of using a static variable in all model classes which contain the class name.

Tags (comma-separated) Cancel