I'd like to immediately call a magic method (__call()
) on a newly constructed object. Example:
class Foo {
public function __call($method,$args) {
echo "You were looking for the method $method.\n";
}
}
Ideal (but gets a parse error):
$foo = new Foo()->bar(); // Fails :(
Working:
$foo = new Foo();
$foo = $foo->bar();
Is this possible? I know PHP 5.4 brought immediate 1-line object method calling (http://docs.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php) so I'm not sure why this isn't working.