Instantiating class by string in current namespace

namespaces, php

Solution

When you use a string with `new` you need to provide a fully qualified class name.

You can do this with `__NAMESPACE__`:

$fullclass = __NAMESPACE__ . '\\' . $class;
new $fullclass;

See the documentation for the `new` operator and the `__NAMESPACE__` magic constant.

Problem

I'm trying to instantiate an object of a dynamically created classname. I'm using namespaces and the class I want to instantiate is in the same namespace. To examplify, this works fine: ``` namespace MyNamespace; new MyClass; // MyNamespace\MyClass instantiated ``` Whereas this doesn't: ``` namespace MyNamespace; $class = 'MyClass'; new $class; // Class 'MyClass' not found ``` Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

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