Question

This requirement is just for simplicity for developers and beautiful code. I’m building a template system and I really would just like an object variable to simply be there in all functions. Here’s some code:

Librarian.php:

$class = "slideshow";
$function = "basic";
$args = array(...);
$librarian = $this; // I WOULD LIKE THIS TO BE PRESENT IN CALLED FUNCTION

…

return call_user_func($class.'::'.$function, $args);

…

Slideshow.php:

public static function basic($args) {
    echo $librarian; // "Librarian Object"
}

Thanks!
Matt Mueller

Answer 1

You could have a function that you use:

public static function basic($args) {
    echo librarian();
}

// some other file
function librarian()
{
    global $librarian;
    // does some stuff
}

That way you won’t have to continually add the global statement to each function.

Is that what you meant?