You can not do what you're looking for. The example call you give:
methodName();
Is calling a global function. Even static class functions are global as well, they always need the class-name to be called:
ClassName::methodName();
This calls the global static class function you've created in the include file.
I can only guess what you'd like to achieve, maybe you can benefit from the feature that includes can return values:
static class ClassName{
static public function methodName(){
//blah blah blah
}
}
return 'ClassName';
Including:
$className = require_once(ClassName.php);
$className::methodName();
However this won't work with reguire_once
when the file has been loaded earlier.
You can write a wrapper function to require_once
files, store their return value into a global context array that keeps these values based on the file-name of the include.
Keep in mind that the java language differs from PHP. The equivalent to the java static function would be the global function in PHP:
function methodName(){
//blah blah blah
}
Including:
require_once(ClassName.php);
methodName();
That's the PHP equivalent.