Question

I’m attempting to access member variables in a child class via the parent class without instantiation.

This is one of my attempts but B::getStatic() fails with Access to undeclared static property.

Is there another solution to this, possibly without static?

class A {      static public function getStatic() {          return self::$myStatic;      }  }  class B extends A {      public static $myStatic = 5;  }  class C extends A {      public static $myStatic = 6;  }  var_dump(B::$myStatic); var_dump(B::getStatic());  var_dump(C::$myStatic); var_dump(C::getStatic()); 

Answer 1

The concept you’re running into is called ‘Late Static Binding.’ Until PHP 5.3.0, there was no support for this.

If you’re running 5.3.0 or higher, update the getStatic() method:

static public function getStatic() {

return static::$myStatic; 

}