Is there a workaround for $this within a closure in PHP 5.3?

Question

My IDE warns me that $this is not allowed within a closure before PHP 5.4. Is there a workaround for this without upgrading PHP from 5.3.10 ? See fire()

Answer 1

If info method is public you can do:

//...
public function fire()
{
    $self = $this;
    $self->info('Starting chunk');
    Item::chunk(1000, function($items) use ($self)
    {
        foreach ($items as $item)
        {
            $self->info($item->img);
        }
    }
    );

}
//...

If info is private you can't and you need to upgrade to php 5.4, because in PHP 5.3 the context in the closure is not the same of the object context.