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I have a static class with a very long name, example:

class SomeClassWithAVeryLongName {
    const CONST_ONE = 'foo';
    const CONST_TWO = 'bar';
}

In my other class, I want to reference these constants. The problem is there are a bunch of them and I use them as associative keys so my code gets very verbose:

$someArray[SomeClassWithAVeryLongName::CONST_ONE][SomeClassWithAVeryLongName::CONST_TWO] = 'foobar';

Is there a way I can use a pointer of some kind? Something like: 

// Pseudo code
$scwavln = 'SomeClassWithAVeryLongName';
$someArray[$scwavln::CONST_ONE][$scwavln::CONST_TWO] = 'foobar';

It doesn't seem to be working for me. I'm on PHP 5.2.6.

Maverick
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  • Code is much more often read than written. Consequently, you should try to write readable code. `$scwavln` is not readable, so don't do it. – Gordon Jan 02 '12 at 18:04
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    Silly, that was just an example. The actual class name is `Facebook_Open_Graph_API` and I want to use `FBAPI` – Maverick Jan 02 '12 at 21:55

3 Answers3

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Well, for the specific problem just assign the constant values to a shorter variable and use that as your index key.

$index1 = SomeClassWithAVeryLongName::CONST_ONE;
$index2 = SomeClassWithAVeryLongName::CONST_TWO;

$someArray[$index1][$index2] = 'foo';

However, you can do what you were attempting to do with PHP 5.3:

$Uri = '\\My\\Namespaced\\Class';

// you see the value of the const
var_dump($Uri::MY_CONST);
Charles Sprayberry
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class SomeClassWithAVeryLongName {
    const CONST_ONE = 'foo';
    const CONST_TWO = 'bar';
}


$rfl = new ReflectionClass("SomeClassWithAVeryLongName");

$props = $rfl->getConstants();

print_r( $props );

Array
(
    [CONST_ONE] => foo
    [CONST_TWO] => bar
)

http://php.net/manual/en/class.reflectionclass.php

Esailija
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class scwavln extends SomeClassWithAVeryLongName {}
$someArray[scwavln::CONST_ONE][scwavln::CONST_TWO] = 'foobar';
AlienWebguy
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