How do I access static member of a class?

Question

I am trying to access static member of a class.

my class is:

class A
{
    public static $strName = \'A is my name\'
    public function xyz()
    {
         


        

Answer 1

You have a syntax error with missing semicolon and because it is an array you need to access the index of 0, or else it would be trying to call class 'Array'.

class A
{
    public static $strName = 'A is my name';

    public function xyz()
    {
        // left blank and removed syntax error
    }
}
$x = array('A');
echo $x[0]::$strName;

Should fix it.

UPDATE

If you want to iterate over an array to call a class variable:

$x = array('A', 'B');
foreach ($x as $class) {
     echo $class::$strName;
}

Not sure why you would want that, but there you go. And this has been tested, no errors were thrown, valid response of A is my name was received.

EDIT

Apparently this only works under PHP 5.3