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Comments By: Nitish Rathi

Sorry about the formatting. Can I submit formatted comments?
posted on Aug 22, 2007 at 6:13am | context

I can add a few more to the list of things you should dislike about PHP: Can't implement multiple interfaces which both declare the same function

interface Runnable {
  function run();
}

interface Task {
  function run();
}

// won't work
class Job implements Runnable, Task {
  function run() {
    echo 'run';
  }
}

Can't initialize a field by calling a function/method

class Fields {
  private $array1 = array('f', 'o', 'o');
  private $string1 = 'foo';

  // the following lines just won't work
  private $foo1 = $this->createFoo();
  private $foo2 = Fields::staticCreateFoo();

  private function createFoo() {
    return 'foo';
  }

  private static function staticCreateFoo() {
    return 'foo';
  }
}

Dynamic static method call doesn't work as expected

// will create a new instance of ClassName;
$name = "ClassName";
$instance = new $name();

// will run method().
public function method() {
  //some code
}
$methodName = "method";
$methodName();

// won't work
class ClassName {

  public static function staticClassMethod() {
    //some code
  }

}

$name = "ClassName"; $name::staticClassMethod(); T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM Turns out it’s Hebrew for '::'. Thank you, PHP, for teaching me a Hebrew word.

posted on Aug 22, 2007 at 6:11am | context

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Comments By: Nitish Rathi