{"id":18611,"date":"2013-09-17T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T08:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=18611"},"modified":"2013-09-17T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T08:11:40","slug":"php-self-vs-static","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/17\/php-self-vs-static\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP: self:: vs. static::"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I am seeing more and more PHP code with static::<\/em> key used for method calls instead of self::<\/em>. \u00a0Today I’ve finally found some time to examine the novelty. \u00a0The page that is useful for more details is PHP’s late static binding<\/a>. \u00a0This functionality is available since PHP 5.3.0 so you might as well start using it.<\/p>\n

I am a bit protective of my code, so self::<\/em> feels like a safer, more natural option. \u00a0But after thinking about it for a bit, and discussing with my colleagues, I came to the conclusion that I should be using static::<\/em> instead of self::<\/em>. \u00a0It provides cleaner inheritance and minimizes code copy-pasting.<\/p>\n

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I am seeing more and more PHP code with static:: key used for method calls instead of self::. \u00a0Today I’ve finally found some time to examine the novelty. \u00a0The page that is useful for more details is PHP’s late static binding. \u00a0This functionality is available since PHP 5.3.0 so you might as well start using … Continue reading PHP: self:: vs. static::<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62],"tags":[3083,38],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-18611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","tag-oop","tag-php"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28567,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/09\/phpmetrics-static-analysis-tool-for-php\/","url_meta":{"origin":18611,"position":0},"title":"PhpMetrics – static analysis tool for PHP","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"May 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"PhpMetrics is yet another tool in the ever growing list of the static code analyzers for PHP.\u00a0 Compared to the rest, I think this one is the easiest to install and run.\u00a0 And it produces the most eye candy reports ever.\u00a0 The generated report is in the HTML format, with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/phpmetrics-500x253.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":27105,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/12\/11\/php-static-analysis-tool-discover-bugs-in-your-code-without-running-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":18611,"position":1},"title":"PHP Static Analysis Tool – discover bugs in your code without running it!","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"December 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Ond\u0159ej Mirtes shares the idea behind the creation of\u00a0PHPStan - a static analysis tool for PHP: Compiled languages need to know about the type of every variable, return type of every method etc. before the program runs. 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