Determining if a method was called statically

Posted on October 29, 2009

In PHP, it’s occasionally helpful to call a method sometimes statically and sometimes from class instance. Figuring out which way a method has been called is pretty straightforward, thanks to a function posted in the PHP documentation:

<?php
function foo () {
$isStatic = !(isset($this) && get_class($this) == __CLASS__);
}
?>