PHP5 - Reflection API getStaticPropertyValue()

[elija]

I am trying to use the method getStaticPropertyValue and it is failing claiming that the static property doesn't exist but it does.

//  Fails
$strValue = $objReflect->getStaticPropertyValue('tableName');

//  Shows that tableName does indeed exist
foreach ($objReflect->getStaticProperties() as $name => $value) {
    echo "$name = $value<br>";
}

I know I can use an if in the loop to get at the value of the property I want and that is what I am going to do for now, but there must be some reason why getStaticPropertyValue() is failing. I would like to understand what (if anything) I am doing wrong.

In case it is important, the static property is defined in a sub-class of the class that is trying to access it.

[elija]

OK, I redesigned the classes to avoid the static method and used a class constant and the getConstant() method of the ReflectionClass class.

It works now