Passing static methods as arguments in PHP

Question

In PHP is it possible to do something like this:

myFunction( MyClass::staticMethod );

so that \'myFunction\' will have a reference to the stati

Answer 1

The 'php way' to do this, is to use the exact same syntax used by is_callable and call_user_func.

This means that your method is 'neutral' to being

• A standard function name
• A static class method
• An instance method
• A closure

In the case of static methods, this means you should pass it as:

myFunction( [ 'MyClass', 'staticMethod'] );

or if you are not running PHP 5.4 yet:

myFunction( array( 'MyClass', 'staticMethod') );