How can I get PHP to evaluate a static variable in double quotes?
I want to do something like this:
log("self::$CLASS $METHOD entering");
I don’t know the answer to your question, but you can show the class name and method using the __METHOD__
magic constant.
<?php
class test {
public $static = 'text';
public $self = __CLASS__;
// static Method
static function author() {
return "Frank Glück";
}
// static variable
static $url = 'https://www.dozent.net';
public function dothis() {
$self = __CLASS__;
echo <<<TEST
{${!${''}=static::author()}} // works
{$self::author()} // works
{$this->self::author()} // works
${!${''}=self::author()} // works
{${$this->self}}::author()}} // don't works
${${self::author()}} // do/don't works but with notice
${@${self::author()}} // works but with @ !
TEST;
}
}
$test = 'test'; // this is the trick, put the Classname into a variable
echo "{$test::author()} {$$test::$url}";
echo <<<HTML
<div>{$test::author()}</div>
<div>{$$test::$url}</div>
HTML;
$test = new test();
$test->dothis();
Just live with the concatenation. You'd be surprised how inefficient variable interpolation in strings can be.
And while this could fall under the umbrella of pre-optimization or micro-optimization, I just don't think you actually gain any elegance in this example.
Personally, if I'm gonna make a tiny optimization of one or the other, and my choices are "faster" and "easier to type" - I'm gonna choose "faster". Because you only type it a few times, but it's probably going to execute thousands of times.
Yes this can be done:
log("{${self::$CLASS}} $METHOD entering");
I know this is an old question but I find it odd that noone has suggested the [sprintf][1]
function yet.
say:
<?php
class Foo {
public static $a = 'apple';
}
you would use it with:
echo sprintf( '$a value is %s', Foo::$a );
so on your example its:
log(
sprintf ( ' %s $METHOD entering', self::$CLASS )
);
Use an anonymous identity function stored in a variable. This way you will have $
immediately after {
:
$I = function($v) { return $v; };
$interpolated = "Doing {$I(self::FOO)} with {$I(self::BAR)}";
(I am using class constants in this example but this will work with static variables too).