diff --git a/includes/view.inc b/includes/view.inc
index 26079a6..57a4fde 100644
--- a/includes/view.inc
+++ b/includes/view.inc
@@ -87,11 +87,8 @@ class view extends views_db_object {
   /**
    * Returns the complete list of dependent objects in a view, for the purpose
    * of initialization and loading/saving to/from the database.
-   *
-   * Note: In PHP5 this should be static, but PHP4 doesn't support static
-   * methods.
    */
-  function db_objects() {
+  public static function db_objects() {
     return array('display');
   }
 
@@ -1392,7 +1389,7 @@ class view extends views_db_object {
    * that would be very slow.  Buiding the views externally from unified queries is
    * much faster.
    */
-  function load_views() {
+  public static function load_views() {
     $result = db_query("SELECT DISTINCT v.* FROM {views_view} v");
     $views = array();
     $vids = array();