Hi,

does somebody know if there is an way to test within an method if call was
statically or not? I googled like for "design pattern php static method
call", but did not found what I searched for.


During debugging I have seen that $this is even set on static method call,
if the called came from "within" another object.

Like those lines will output "Foo":

class Foo {
function method()
{
Bar::method();
}
}

class Bar
{
function method()
{
echo (get_class($this));
}
}

$x = new Foo();
$x->method();
?>



Thats why contruct like following could be problematic. Imagine: call was
statically from another object having also property m_data['Number'], and by
some situation parameter $p_articleNumber was null.

function getTranslations($p_articleNumber = null)
{
if (!is_null($p_articleNumber)) {
$articleNumber = $p_articleNumber;
} elseif (isset($this)) {
$articleNumber = $this->m_data['Number'];
} else {
return array();
}
$queryStr = 'SELECT * FROM Articles '
." WHERE Number=$articleNumber";
$articles = DbObjectArray::Create('Article', $queryStr);
return $articles;
} // fn getTranslations


Best,
Sebastian