[Tsheetx-developers] A new OOP technique I never knew about

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    I have just discovered a new OOP technique that I had never heard
    about before.<br>
    Well i've been writing embedded C recently and found that you could
    have static variables within a function.<br>
    Thus that particular variable maintains state in each subsequent
    call of the same function whilst keeping local scope instead of
    class level scope / global scope.<br>
    <br>
    Now it turns out this is also possible in PHP so I thought I would
    share it with everyone in case they find a good use for it.&nbsp; An
    example is shown below:<br>
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      <div class="phpcode"><code><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
            <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 187);">&lt;?php<br>
            </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 119, 0);">function&nbsp;</span><span
              style="color: rgb(0, 0, 187);">test</span><span
              style="color: rgb(0, 119, 0);">()<br>
              {<br>
              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;static&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 187);">$a&nbsp;</span><span
              style="color: rgb(0, 119, 0);">=&nbsp;</span><span
              style="color: rgb(0, 0, 187);">0</span><span style="color:
              rgb(0, 119, 0);">;<br>
              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 187);">$a</span><span
              style="color: rgb(0, 119, 0);">;<br>
              &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 187);">$a</span><span
              style="color: rgb(0, 119, 0);">++;<br>
              }<br>
            </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 187);">test();<br>
              test();<br>
              test();<br>
              ?&gt;<br>
              <br>
              Information found here:
              <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php">http://php.net/manual/en/language.variables.scope.php</a><br>
              <br>
              Cheers!<br>
              Mark</span></span></code><br>
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