Question

Is there any way to obtain this effect in a PHP version prior to 5.3?

class A {
  public static function x() {print 'ok'; }
}

$className = 'A';
$className::x();

Thanks!
Palantir

Answer 1

Yes you can by using call_user_func_array :

call_user_func_array(array($className, 'x'), array()) ;