Re: [PHP] Class Static variables in double quoted string or heredoc

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Robert Cummings <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 10:14 -0600, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Jason Pruim <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:56 AM, Nathan Nobbe wrote:
> > >
> > >  On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 9:50 AM, Leurent Francois <
> [email protected]>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>  Is there any hope that
> > >>> echo "Welcome {session::$user_info['user_name']}";
> > >>>
> > >>> will work someday, if not, is there a simple reason i'm missing ?
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> actually, if you see my post from the other day, this is something
> that
> > >> *was* supported in php-5.2.4.  i dont know why its not working in
> 5.2.5;
> > >> ive
> > >> also checked 5.2.6_rc3 and its not working there either.  i have
> written
> > >> some phpt tests and run them on a 5.2.4 install and a 5.2.6_rc3
> install;
> > >> you
> > >> can find the details on a post to the php-qa list from a couple of
> days
> > >> back
> > >> (that i posted after a lack of interest from the php-general list :O)
> > >>
> > >> http://marc.info/?l=php-qa&m=120901795414161&w=2
> > >>
> > >
> > > is there a reason why that would work better then: echo "Welcome
> > > {$_SESSION['user_info']['user_name']}";?
> > >
> > > Just curious :)
> >
> >
> > i think the question is more along the lines of why cant static
> references
> > be embedded within double quoted strings like class instances (and
> > indirectly the issue i mentioned earlier this week, which affords a
> > workaround), as in
>
> I think the real question is... why do you guys want to stick a whole
> scripting engine into double quotes? There's this thing in PHP, it's
> called the concatenation operator... read about it sometime.
>
> *shakes his head* *points at the cavemen* *laughs* Hah hah!


bah; concatenation operator - schmacatatenation operator!  i dont really
care about that; but i would like to see support for $a::$someStatic come
back.  thats what im whining about ;)

-nathan