Static Properties & Methods In Object Oriented PHP - Full PHP 8 Tutorial

In the first section of the course, you learned about variable scopes & static variables. In this lesson, you will learn about static properties & methods of the class with some use cases including singleton & factory design patterns. There are few differences between static properties & non-static properties, one is that static properties are associated & belong to the class itself & not to any particular object, while non-static properties are associated & belong to the object. So when you create an object, that object gets fresh values for the non-static properties. Another difference is that you need to use the dollar sign when accessing static properties, unlike regular properties where you don't use the dollar sign to access non-static properties.

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i am using php around 7 years but this course hit me hard in context of dunning kruger effect :)

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[basilistigris]

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Just here to give you a like and maybe spread this course a bit more. Thanks

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Thanks again for these informative and useful videos!

[TurntableTV]

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[lairotuT-Tutorial]

Switching back and forth inside your videos while understanding PHP more and more I remembered your mention at 4:58 "The use of static methods and properties is generally considered a bad practice"

Now Laravel has these Facades - that as far as I understand - enable us to simply have a static counterpart of every of our classes/objects. Would be great if you could explain why this is a really good usecase. I guess there might be a new video on Facades in your laravel course?

btw.: I have not mentioned by now that also this video is great 🙂

[jeevachaithanyansivanandan]

A request : please do a video explaining method chaining, including static methods.
Thank you

[guillermofernandez]

I understand why you use static function as callback, but..., which would be an example of use case for not letting use "$this"?? I'm not seeing....
Great course!! Great videos!! Great explanations!! Great everything!! Please let me know if some day you do a course focus on Design Patterns
Thanks in advance

[ovidiublaga]

If you make a symfony course, I would totally buy it

[migueldemaria]

Any thoughts on the idea of Singleton classes being an Anti-Pattern? Thanks for the great instruction, Gio!

[prashantgupta]

Great course packed with a lot of information. Just want to know from Gio and other people taking it, is required to code along with every lecture as I am a beginner to PHP and come from the background of Python so many concepts are new to me and if I am coding along one lecture take up to 30-40 minutes. If not what is the best way to do it.TIA

[AMoktar]

Thanks bro for this great effort .
Can you please prefix videos with counting number, that will be great too . Thanks anyway ❤

[ezekielnizamani]

Hello bro this hizqeel i think it would be great if you create playlist for OOP. love your content you have put everything in course

[dawid_dahl]

If one is using a class like your Format example with only static methods, could one just as well just make an associative array called Format with the an appropriate name like “amount” as key, and a function as value?

Just a matter of taste, or is some better than the other for some kind of reason?

[aymanelash]

can you please give a real example on why we should user PRIVATE then making setters and getters instead of just using PUBLIC ?

[Zubbee]

Thanks a lot for this. Finished and I believe I'm following. Just that I wish I had some real project where I could be trying/applying this. Cause for now I'm just learning and learning. It's hard to test if I can recall and apply these. Maybe there's some code challenge or something online where I can test my knowledge. Is there? Great lesson. Thanks Gio