BUG: Referring to a class function

[mrbog]

This is a "namespace" problem with "::". Is there an official place I
can report php bugs? I'm new to PHP (and soon to be leaving it):

class SomeClass {
function dostuff($ar) {
uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort');
}

function somesort($a,$b) {<-- never gets called
echo "Yes I got called"; //<-- never happens
if ($a[order] == $b[order]) { return 0;}
if ($a[order] < $b[order]) { return -1;};
if ($a[order] > $b[order]) { return 1;};
}
}
SomeClass::dostuff($ar); //put whatever you want in the $ar array to
test

In the line "uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort');",
'SomeClass::somesort' isn't recognized by PHP. I also tried just
'somesort', no go.

I was trying to use a class as a substitute for PHP's lack of
namespaces. (Which btw is the reason I'm bailing out of php.)
Because of this bug I have to put my sorting funct into the global
space, which is ridiculous.

[Cameron]

mrbog wrote:

This is a "namespace" problem with "::". Is there an official place I
can report php bugs? I'm new to PHP (and soon to be leaving it):

class SomeClass {
function dostuff($ar) {
uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort');
}

function somesort($a,$b) {<-- never gets called
echo "Yes I got called"; //<-- never happens
if ($a[order] == $b[order]) { return 0;}
if ($a[order] < $b[order]) { return -1;};
if ($a[order] > $b[order]) { return 1;};
}
}
SomeClass::dostuff($ar); //put whatever you want in the $ar array to
test

In the line "uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort');",
'SomeClass::somesort' isn't recognized by PHP. I also tried just
'somesort', no go.

I was trying to use a class as a substitute for PHP's lack of
namespaces. (Which btw is the reason I'm bailing out of php.)
Because of this bug I have to put my sorting funct into the global
space, which is ridiculous.

Why are you using :: rather than creating an instance of the class? i.e.

$foo = new SomeClass;

when you use a class function as a callback one usually uses the $this
pointer, however as you didn't create an instance of the class then you
can't, I don't think this is a bug, I think the problem is that you
aren't using classes properly.

~Cameron

[Alex Farran]

mrbog writes:

This is a "namespace" problem with "::". Is there an official place I
can report php bugs? I'm new to PHP (and soon to be leaving it):
Patience. If you let this small problem frustrate you, you'll have
just as many problems whatever language you choose.
uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort');

Change this line to uasort($ar, array('SomeClass', 'somesort') );

--

__o Alex Farran
_`\<,_ Analyst / Programmer
(_)/ (_) www.alexfarran.com

[root-boy]

Why not do the following:

class SomeClass{
function dostuff($ar)
{
function SomeSort($a, $b)
{
/* Your sorting code goes here. */
}

uasort($ar, 'SomeSort');
}
}/* End class */

Thus nothing, but the required function will see the sorting function. Isn't
that peachy?

root-boy.

[mrbog]

Cameron <fo*@bar.invalid> wrote in message news:<c0**********@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>...

Why are you using :: rather than creating an instance of the class? i.e.

$foo = new SomeClass;

when you use a class function as a callback one usually uses the $this
pointer, however as you didn't create an instance of the class then you
can't, I don't think this is a bug, I think the problem is that you
aren't using classes properly.

~Cameron

It's called a static function. PHP supports referring to functions
that way, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do the line
"SomeClass::dostuff($ar);" which does work. As I said, I'm using
classes to accomodate PHP's (terribly unfortunate) lack of namespaces.

[mrbog]

Alex Farran <al**@alexfarran.com> wrote in message news:<m3************@alexfarran.com>...

mrbog writes:

Patience. If you let this small problem frustrate you, you'll have
just as many problems whatever language you choose.

Lack of namespaces is not a small problem.

uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort');

Change this line to uasort($ar, array('SomeClass', 'somesort') );

Thanks very much, it worked. Don't know why they can't have PHP just
check for "::" in the name and do this for me. But thanks again.
(Hey is there an official place I can report bugs or is this the
place? Not that this was a bug per se, I'm just asking in general.
Maybe I could make it a "suggestion".)

thanks,
mrb

[Alex Farran]

mrbog writes:

> uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort'); Change this line to uasort($ar, array('SomeClass', 'somesort') );

Thanks very much, it worked. Don't know why they can't have PHP just
check for "::" in the name and do this for me. But thanks again.
(Hey is there an official place I can report bugs or is this the
place? Not that this was a bug per se, I'm just asking in general.
Maybe I could make it a "suggestion".)

I expect you'll find all you need at www.php.net.

--

__o Alex Farran
_`\<,_ Analyst / Programmer
(_)/ (_) www.alexfarran.com

[Cameron]

mrbog wrote:

Cameron <fo*@bar.invalid> wrote in message news:<c0**********@newsg2.svr.pol.co.uk>...

Why are you using :: rather than creating an instance of the class? i.e.

$foo = new SomeClass;

when you use a class function as a callback one usually uses the $this
pointer, however as you didn't create an instance of the class then you
can't, I don't think this is a bug, I think the problem is that you
aren't using classes properly.

~Cameron

It's called a static function. PHP supports referring to functions
that way, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to do the line
"SomeClass::dostuff($ar);" which does work. As I said, I'm using
classes to accomodate PHP's (terribly unfortunate) lack of namespaces.

I know what it is.

~Cameron

[Chung Leong]

That a programmer should feel he cannot do without namespace is a sad
commentary on the break-down of our PHP community. Shared values and
assumptions have so diminished that we cannot function without segregating
ourselves into little cocoons. It's as though relativism has reached its
apex, and in the world in which we program, not only can we not agree what
ideas mean, we cannot even agree on which name is associated with with idea.

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Alex Farran <al**@alexfarran.com> wrote in message

news:<m3************@alexfarran.com>...

mrbog writes:

Patience. If you let this small problem frustrate you, you'll have
just as many problems whatever language you choose.

Lack of namespaces is not a small problem.

uasort($ar, 'SomeClass::somesort');

Change this line to uasort($ar, array('SomeClass', 'somesort') );

Thanks very much, it worked. Don't know why they can't have PHP just
check for "::" in the name and do this for me. But thanks again.
(Hey is there an official place I can report bugs or is this the
place? Not that this was a bug per se, I'm just asking in general.
Maybe I could make it a "suggestion".)

thanks,
mrb