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  • This is not a question of advantage or disadvantage. Also, have you searched the site?
    – BoltClock
    Commented Jan 9, 2012 at 7:09
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    you don't need to create object to use static methods..And there's a lot of related questions!
    – meze
    Commented Jan 9, 2012 at 7:09
  • Yes, I was reading some from PHP Manual site, but I don't seem to understand why useing static methods, I only understood that instead of calling the public function like this -> I can do this :: and some other info I read about static methods on php manual site ...
    – Roland
    Commented Jan 9, 2012 at 7:13
  • @Roland This question is more related to the object-oriented paradigm in itself than to a specific language. Therefore, you might be better off reading through a introduction to static methods in general.
    – jensgram
    Commented Jan 9, 2012 at 13:01
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    Even though this is closed, it's the first thing I found whilst googling to answer my question as to what the difference is between static and non-static class functions in PHP. Thanks @meze
    – jdstankosky
    Commented Oct 15, 2012 at 15:58