PHP static method call with namespace in member variable

Question

is it possible to do something like this in php? I want to have a namespace in a member variable and just always be able to call every static method of that class like I'm doing below.

Of course my code doesn't work, but I'm just wondering if that is possible at all and that I'm close to a solution, or if that's completely out of the question and must always use the syntax:

\Stripe\Stripe::setApiKey(..);

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NOTE: I cannot modify the Stripe class, it's important it stays untouched for when future devs must update the Stripe API

Simplified code:

class StripeLib
{
    var $stripe;

    public function __construct()
    {
        // Put the namespace in a member variable
        $this->stripe = '\\'.Stripe.'\\'.Stripe;
    }
}

$s = new StripeLib();

// Call the static setApiKey method of the Stripe class in the Stripe namespace
$s->stripe::setApiKey(STRIPE_PRIVATE_KEY);

Answer 1

Yes something like this is possible. There is is static class method which can be called which returns the namespace path of the class.

<?php
namespace Stripe;

Class Stripe {

    public static function setApiKey($key){
        return $key;    
    }

}

class StripeLib
{
    public $stripe;

    public function __construct()
    {
        // Put the namespace in a member variable
        $this->stripe = '\\'.Stripe::class;
    }
}

$s = (new StripeLib())->stripe;

// Call the static setApiKey method of the Stripe class in the Stripe namespace
echo $s::setApiKey("testKey"); //Returns testkey