Shorter way to differentiate variables

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Does PHP have an option to mark a variable as an instance variable or class variable or local variable inside a class?

Ruby has the following options:

Local variable   ->  myvar
Instance variable->  @myvar 
Class variable   ->  @@myvar

Is there any such option in PHP other than this lengthy $myvar, $this->myvar and self::$myvar?

I asked like this because I'm from ruby on rails background. There it was so easy to handle variables like as i gave above. In PHP the variable handling style didn't felt so handy. So I referred a docs a lot times. But didn't find any so I asked if I missed any such option in the docs and anyone else may have noticed it.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '13 at 14:20

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No, there are no such options in PHP.

answered Jan 17 '13 at 14:20

Vlad Preda

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 17 '13 at 14:21

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$this->variable; //class var
ClassName::variable; //static var
$variable; //local var

Other than the above there is no other way to declare a variable (unless you want to use constants define('VARIABLE', "some constant");)

answered Jan 17 '13 at 14:21

Naftali

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"*other than this lengthy `$myvar`, `$this->myvar` and `self::$myvar`*" – eggyal Jan 17 '13 at 14:21

Shorter way to differentiate variables

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