diff --git a/tests/dbal/select_test.php b/tests/dbal/select_test.php
index bd524100a2..c8cfad04e0 100644
--- a/tests/dbal/select_test.php
+++ b/tests/dbal/select_test.php
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ class phpbb_dbal_select_test extends phpbb_database_test_case
 		$this->assertEquals($expected, $ary);
 	}
 
-	public static function fetchfield_seek_data()
+	static public function fetchfield_seek_data()
 	{
 		return array(
 			array(1, 'foobar'),
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ class phpbb_dbal_select_test extends phpbb_database_test_case
 		$this->assertEquals($expected, $field);
 	}
 
-	public static function query_limit_data()
+	static public function query_limit_data()
 	{
 		return array(
 			array(0, 0, array(array('username_clean' => 'barfoo'),
diff --git a/tests/privmsgs/delete_user_pms_test.php b/tests/privmsgs/delete_user_pms_test.php
index 265df1596a..f705825262 100644
--- a/tests/privmsgs/delete_user_pms_test.php
+++ b/tests/privmsgs/delete_user_pms_test.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ class phpbb_privmsgs_delete_user_pms_test extends phpbb_database_test_case
 		return $this->createXMLDataSet(dirname(__FILE__).'/fixtures/delete_user_pms.xml');
 	}
 
-	public static function delete_user_pms_data()
+	static public function delete_user_pms_data()
 	{
 		return array(
 		//	array(
diff --git a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php
index bb86df0ef0..75a3c0944b 100644
--- a/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php
+++ b/tests/test_framework/phpbb_database_test_case.php
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ abstract class phpbb_database_test_case extends PHPUnit_Extensions_Database_Test
 	*
 	* @return string The string with the specified match converted to uppercase
 	*/
-	public static function to_upper($matches)
+	static public function to_upper($matches)
 	{
 		return $matches[1] . strtoupper($matches[2]) . $matches[3];
 	}