Question

Is it possible to alias a class method as a global function?

I have a class that acts as a wrapper around the gettext functions in PHP. I have a function called _t() that deals with translations.

I would like to be able to call it as _t() from anywhere in my code without having to do it via an instantiated object ($translate::_t()) as that seems quite unwieldy.

I thought about using namespaces to give the object an alias:

Use translations\TranslationClass as T

Although this is a better improvement: T::_t(). it is still not as need as just having to do _t().

Are there anyways to alias T::_t() as just _t() across the whole application?

Answer 1

You can either create a wrapper function or use create_function().

function _t() {
    call_user_func_array(array('TranslationClass', '_t'), func_get_arts());
}

Or you can create a function on the fly:

$t = create_function('$string', 'return TranslationClass::_t($string);');

// Which would be used as:
print $t('Hello, World');