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mason
15 years ago
PHP actually supports invoking a new instance of a class using a variable class name since at least version 5.2

<?php
class Foo {
public function
hello() {
echo
'Hello world!';
}
}
$my_foo = 'Foo';
$a = new $my_foo();
$a->hello(); //prints 'Hello world!'
?>

Additionally, you can access static methods and properties using variable class names, but only since PHP 5.3

<?php
class Foo {
public static function
hello() {
echo
'Hello world!';
}
}
$my_foo = 'Foo';
$my_foo::hello(); //prints 'Hello world!'
?>

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