How do I call a static child function from parent static function?

Question

How do I call child function from parent static function ?

In php5.3 there is a built in method called get_called_class() to call child method from pare

Answer 1

I suspect you are a bit confused abuot parent / child, class / object and function / method.

Ionuț G. Stan has provided the explanation of how to invoke a method which is not declared in a parent class (which as he says should be abstract or implement the __call() method).

However if you mean how do invoke a method which has been overridden in a child class from the parent, then it is not possible - nor should it be. Consider:

Class shape {
 ...
}

Class circle extends shape {
  function area() {

  }
} 
Class square extends shape {
  function area() {

  }
}

If it is your intent to call the area method on an instance of 'shape' (which does not have an area method) then which child should it use? Both the child methods would depend on properties which are not common / not implemented by the shape class.