Dynamic static method call in PHP?

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Tom picture Tom · Jan 21, 2010 · Viewed 67.4k times · Source

Please could someone experienced in PHP help out with the following. Somewhere in my code, I have a call to a public static method inside a non-instantiated class:

$result = myClassName::myFunctionName();

However, I would like to have many such classes and determine the correct class name on the fly according to the user's language. In other words, I have:

$language = 'EN';

... and I need to do something like:

$result = myClassName_EN::myFunctionName();

I know I could pass the language as a parameter to the function and deal with it inside just one common class but for various reasons, I would prefer a different solution.

Does this make any sense, anyone? Thanks.

Answer

Ben Everard picture Ben Everard · Jan 21, 2010

Use the call_user_func function:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func.php

Example:

call_user_func('myClassName_' . $language . '::myFunctionName');

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