PHP is handling incorrectly my static call

Question

I\'m havinh a problem on PHP 5.3. I need to call a method by using __callStatic, but if I use it in a instancied object, PHP call __call instead.

Answer 1

First, make sure you're using PHP 5.3.0 or newer, as that's when __callStatic was implemented. It all seems to work as expected, see this example:

foo('abc');
A::bar('123');

class B extends A {
    function invokeStatic($args) {
        echo 'B::invokeStatic', PHP_EOL;
        self::someStatic($args);
    }
}

$b = new B;
$b->invokeStatic('456');
?>

The output should be (or at least, it is for me):

A::__call, array (
  0 => 'foo',
  1 => 
  array (
    0 => 'abc',
  ),
)
A::__callStatic, array (
  0 => 'bar',
  1 => 
  array (
    0 => '123',
  ),
)
B::invokeStatic
A::__callStatic, array (
  0 => 'someStatic',
  1 => 
  array (
    0 => '456',
  ),
)

When I run your example above, I just get "Fine!" as the only output, which is exactly what I would have expected.

Exactly what version of PHP are you running? You can check with this:

$ php -r 'echo phpversion(), PHP_EOL;'
5.3.3-7+squeeze1