Static methods and $this
The book tells about static methods but it forgets to mention that you cannot use $this in static methods. A static method is pretty much like a normal stand-alone function is not aware about the object as a whole. So you can call the static method when no object of that class exists. In this case the method would have no idea what $this is.
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