Is there a way to get the static properties from a class without having to create an instance of the class?

```
$reflection   = new ReflectionObject( 'Foo' );
$staticProperties = $reflection->getStaticProperties(); 

```

Doing that throws an error.

```
ReflectionObject::__construct() expects parameter 1 to be object, string given in test.php on line 19

```

This is php 5.5
The docs seem to show I should be able to pass a string.. 

<http://php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.construct.php>

```
Either a string containing the name of the class to reflect, or an object.

```

Any idea? Want to get them without having to token parse the file.