Passing static methods as arguments in PHP

Question

In PHP is it possible to do something like this:

myFunction( MyClass::staticMethod );

so that \'myFunction\' will have a reference to the stati

Answer 1

Let my try to give a thorough example...

You would make a call like this:

myFunction('Namespace\\MyClass', 'staticMethod');

or like this (if you have arguments you want to pass):

myFunction('Namespace\\MyClass', 'staticMethod', array($arg1, $arg2, $arg3));

And your function to receive this call:

public static function myFunction($class, $method, $args = array())
{
    if (is_callable($class, $method)) {
        return call_user_func_array(array($class, $method), $args);
    }
    else {
        throw new Exception('Undefined method - ' . $class . '::' . $method);
    }
}

Similiar technique is commonly used in the Decorator Pattern in php.