Redeclare PHP function

Unfortunatly we cannot easy redeclare (override) functions in PHP. But sometimes we extreamly need this. For example we have our class to deal with gettext:

class Translate
{
    public static function _($text)
    {
        // ... do some stuff
        return $result;
    }
}

And we dont want to use its huge call

Translate::_('message to translate');

We want to use shortcut like

_('message to translate');

But, ooops! PHP already has '_' function, and first our idea is "override it!". Sorry, there is no native tools to redeclare function. Some extensions save us: APD or runkit.

// use override_function
override_function('_', '$text', 'return Translate::_($text);');
// or runkit_function_redefine
runkit_function_redefine('_', '$text', 'return Translate::_($text);');

There are some alternatives: give another name to your function, for example ;-)

function t($text)
{
    Translate::_($text);
}