Hello Jason,
new doesn't expect a string which a constant in fact is. It expects a
class name. Thus the class name cannot be constified. You'd need to use
reflection for that:
$r = new ReflectionClass($name); $o = $r->newInstance();
best regards
marcus
Monday, September 19, 2005, 6:58:31 PM, y
On 9/19/05, Xuefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> wrong list. :)
My question was not "how do I work around this?". I included that in
my original post. My question was "why is it like this?" which I
thought was more germane to the internals list.
An unquoted string would have to first be thought
can u tell me why
php -r 'function myfunc(){} define("X", "myfunc"); X(); '
Fatal error: Call to undefined function: x() in Command line code on line 1
but not calling myfunc?
wrong list. :)
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> But I was wondering if anyone could enlighten me as to why php would
> be upset interpreting the constant as the class name. Thanks.
class Foo {
function get_name() { return 'Foo'; }
}
class Bar {
function get_name() { return 'Bar'; }
}
define('Foo', 'Bar');
$C = new Foo();
echo $C->get_
I ran across this today and it surprised me:
$ php -r 'define("X", "stdClass"); $x = new X; var_dump($x);';
Fatal error: Cannot instantiate non-existent class: x in Command line
code on line 1
I tested on php 4.4.0, 4.3.8 and 5.0.3, with the result that all
versions exhibit the same behavior.
C
