Overriding static members in derived classes in PHP

Answer 1

Based on deceze's and Undolog's input: Undolog is right, for PHP <= 5.2 .

But with 5.3 and late static bindings it will work , just use static instead of self inside the function - now it will work...//THX @ deceze for the hint

for us copy past sample scanning stackoverflow users - this will work:

class Base {
  protected static $c = 'base';
  public static function getC() {
    return static::$c; // !! please notice the STATIC instead of SELF !!
  }
}

class Derived extends Base {
  protected static $c = 'derived';
}

echo Base::getC();      // output "base"
echo Derived::getC();   // output "derived"