Late Static
Late static binding is a variant of binding somewhere between static and dynamic binding. Consider the following PHP example:
class A { static $word = "hello"; static function hello {print self::$word;} } class B extends A { static $word = "bye"; } B::hello;In this example, the PHP interpreter binds the function hello to class A, and so the call to B::hello produces the string "hello". If the semantics of "self::$word" had been based on "late static binding", then the result would have been "bye".
Beginning with PHP version 5.3, late static binding is supported . Specifically, if "self::$word" in the above were changed to "static::$word" as shown in the following block, then the result of the call to B::hello would be "bye":
class A { static $word = "hello"; static function hello {print static::$word;} } class B extends A { static $word = "bye"; } B::hello;Read more about this topic: Name Binding
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