Triggering __call() in PHP even when method exists

Question

The PHP documentation says the following about the __call() magic method:

__call() is triggered when invoking inaccessible methods in an

Answer 1

How about just make all your other methods protected, and proxy them through __callStatic?

namespace test\foo;

class A
{
    public static function __callStatic($method, $args)
    {
        echo __METHOD__ . "\n";

        return call_user_func_array(__CLASS__ . '::' . $method, $args);
    }

    protected static function foo()
    {
        echo __METHOD__ . "\n";
    }
}

A::foo();