Why PHP uses static methods in object context?

Question

I have the following code (like, for real, this is my real code) :

Answer 1

Since PHP is quite a forgiving language you could prevent this default behavior by overloading __callStatic and maybe use reflections to validate the method scope.

http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.overloading.php#object.call

http://php.net/ReflectionClass