xstatic | Static Proxies in any PHP project

xstatic is a PHP library. xstatic has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities, it has a Permissive License and it has low support. You can download it from GitHub.

Facades? Static Proxies? Isn't using static methods considered a bad practice?. Using static methods and classes makes your code harder to test. This is because your code becomes tightly coupled to the class being referenced statically, and mocking static methods for unit tests is difficult. For this and other reasons, using static methods is generally discouraged by object-oriented programming (OOP) experts. Generally, techniques involving design patterns like Service Locator and Dependency Injection (DI) are preferred for managing object dependencies and composition. But... using static methods is really easy. True, and PHP developers that prefer frameworks like CodeIgniter, Laravel, Kohana, and FuelPHP are very accustomed to using static methods in their application development. In some cases, it is an encouraged practice among these communities, who argue that it makes the code more readable and contributes to Rapid Application Development (RAD). So, is there any kind of compromise?. Yep! Laravel 4 has a concept called "facades" (Note: This is not the same as the Facade design pattern). These act as a static interface, or proxy, to an actual object instance stored in a service container. The static proxy is linked to the container using a few tricks, including defining class aliases via PHP's class_alias() function, and the use of the magic __callStatic() method. We can thank Taylor Otwell for developing this technique. OK, then what is the point of XStatic?.