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

Since you've already mentioned that call_user_func() has been used and you're not interested in a solution with that or ones that are passing the static function as a string, here is an alternative: using anonymous functions as a wrapper to the static function.

function myFunction( $method ) {
    $method();
}

myFunction( function() { return MyClass::staticMethod(); } );

I wouldn't recommend doing this, as I think the call_user_func() method is more concise.