Question

I need to implement the square brackets (array operator) in a static PHP class.

The main goal is to have class calls like this at the end :

MyStaticClass[ $something ] = $somethingElse ;
$SomeVar = MyStaticClass[ $something ] ;

I know that this is an heresy, but I really need it…

Any idea ?

I’m wondering if a static call to such an operator is possible, since I found nothing on the web.

Thanks for every help 🙂

Answer 1

[] can not be overloaded only variable and methods

Sample Class

class MyStaticClass
{
    static public $somthing = array("somthingElse"=>"Hello Benj") ;
}

Calling it directly

var_dump(MyStaticClass::$somthing["somthingElse"]);

You can also use

$MyStaticClass = MyStaticClass::$somthing ;
var_dump($MyStaticClass["somthingElse"]);

Both of them would Output

string 'Hello Benj' (length=10)

In PHP 5.4

function MyStaticClass()
{
    return MyStaticClass::$somthing ;
}

var_dump(MyStaticClass()["somthingElse"]);