@Friendica Support @Fabio @Friendica Developers
In reference to @Michael Vogel post about Ideas for refactoring I have a question about understanding of "static calls" of methods and static method.
To break it down: "If we want to call methods with a static call (like dfrn::import) shouldn't function import() of the class dfrn declared explicitly as public static function?"
From my understanding (it's how I interpret https://secure.php.net/manual/de/language.oop5.static.php - sry for the german version, but this part is not in the english version) both would be work because php5 would interpret function as puplic static function automatically because of compatibly issues with php4. To call function statically would print a E_STRICT level warning in php5 and a E_DEPRECATED... mehr anzeigen@Friendica Support @Fabio @Friendica Developers
In reference to @Michael Vogel post about
Ideas for refactoring I have a question about understanding of "static calls" of methods and static method.
To break it down: "If we want to call methods with a static call (like dfrn::import) shouldn't
function import() of the class dfrn declared explicitly as
public static function?"
From my understanding (it's how I interpret
https://secure.php.net/manual/de/language.oop5.static.php - sry for the german version, but this part is not in the english version) both would be work because php5 would interpret
function as
puplic static function automatically because of compatibly issues with php4. To call
function statically would print a E_STRICT level warning in php5 and a E_DEPRECATED warning in php7.
Calling
function statically does have regression in my workflow since my IDE doesn't do autocompletion for this method (and no doxygen).
From all this points I would vote to declare static methods explicit as
public static function.
To summarize my question:
function and
public static function seems to be the same. Or I have misunderstood something?
Fabio
So, yes it works, but is more future-proof to declare it static
Rabuzarus
public static functionmy IDE doesn't give me autocompletion for static calls of methods and it also won't give me the needed doxygen automatically.Any concerns on this?
Fabio
I have concerns on not doing it