#24089 [NEW]: Problem creating objects with names from class' fields

[bartosz at webcity dot pl]

From:             bartosz at webcity dot pl
Operating system: Linux
PHP version:      5CVS-2003-06-09 (dev)
PHP Bug Type:     *General Issues
Bug description:  Problem creating objects with names from class' fields

Analyse code below, it makes parse error:

<?php

class foobar2
{
      function foobar2()
      {
            echo phpversion();
      }
}

class foobar
{
      var $classname = 'foobar2';
      var $obj;

      function foobar()
      {
            // it works:
            //
            // $classname = $this -> classname;
            // $this -> obj = new $classname;
            //
            // but it doesn't work:

            $this -> obj = new $this -> classname;
      }
}

$obj = new foobar;

?>

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My configure command:

'./configure' '--with-mysql=/usr' '--with-gd2' '--disable-xml'
'--with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs'
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