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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 68416

Class property as class name

$this->property = 'SomeClass';

$x = new $this->property();     // works
$x = $this->property::create(); // fails (parse error)

Is this a bug in PHP?

Can a static method be called using the property, without assigning the value to a new variable, and using that variable instead?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 75

Answers (2)

FoolishSeth
FoolishSeth

Reputation: 4021

It's been entered as a bug for a few months and is still in Open status, so I'm gonna go with yes.

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61397

Similarly,

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54095

Upvotes: 1

xdazz
xdazz

Reputation: 160833

Use call_user_func

$x = call_user_func(array($this->property, 'create'));

Upvotes: 2

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