Dynamically setting a constant would break the very rule of it being a constant in the first place. a constant is something that does not change it cannot be dynamic. On Wednesday 07 December 2005 12:00, Jeffrey Sambells wrote: > is there a way to dynamically define a class constant during runtime > in PHP 5? > > for example I would like to achieve the result of something like: > > class Example { > const FOO = bar(); > } > > However this would obviously give a parse error. > > I know it is possible with variables but I would like it to be a > constant. > > Thanks. > > - Jeff > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Jeffrey Sambells > Director of Research and Development > Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) > > We-Create Inc. > jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx email > 519.745.7374 office > 519.897.2552 mobile > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Get Mozilla Firefox at > http://spreadfirefox.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php