PHP - define static array of objects

Question

can you initialize a static array of objects in a class in PHP? Like you can do

class myclass {
    public static $blah = array(\"test1\", \"test2\", \"test         


        

Answer 1

While you cannot initialize it to have these values, you can call a static method to push them into its own internal collection, as I've done below. This may be as close as you'll get.

class foo {
  public $bar = "fizzbuzz";
}

class myClass {
  static public $array = array();
  static public function init() {
    while ( count( self::$array ) < 3 )
      array_push( self::$array, new foo() );
  }
}

myClass::init();
print_r( myClass::$array );

Demo: http://codepad.org/InTPdUCT

Which results in the following output:

Array
(
  [0] => foo Object
    (
      [bar] => fizzbuzz
    )
  [1] => foo Object
    (
      [bar] => fizzbuzz
    )
  [2] => foo Object
    (
      [bar] => fizzbuzz
    )
)