Question

I’m just asking based on experience with other languages that can disambiguate method calls from global function calls based on class scope – eg:

class Foo {
 function bar(){
   echo 'bletch';
 }

 function baz(){
   $this->bar();
 }
}

So I guess I’m asking whether there’s another way of doing $this->bar(), or in other words, how can I leave out $this, which just seems redundant given the context?

Answer 1

No, you can’t access bar() from within baz() without $this-> in PHP as you can easily have global function bar() that is not part of any class/object (which is the difference then most of those languages you are reffering to), which would result in collision.