Re: Instantiating class, classname in constant

Quoting Frédéric Hardy <f.hardy@hexanet.fr>: > > Hi Fella's, > > > > Some of you might or might not remember me. I've been here before and I am > here > > again. Hoping to stick around, ask, wonder and help a lot. So much for a > > starter. > > > > Now, aren't all of you as excited about php5 as I am? What a great change > to the > > object model. Especially, .. well, basically all modifications are as good > as > > all of the others. There's only one thing I can't seem to get working - not > > after googling, trying, searching, reading. Not even after just trying > > everything I thought to be reasonable. It's the following: > > > > <?php > > class Foo { > > const Bar = 'Foo_Bar'; > > const Chocolate = 'Foo_Chocolate'; > > const Target = 'Foo Target'; > > } > > > > $bar = new Foo::Bar(); > > ?> > > > > even though > > > > <?php > > $bar = Foo::Bar; > > $bar = new $bar(); > > ?> > > > > does instantiate an object of class Foo_Bar; > > > > After all this time I've given up on it, please ow please just tell me why > it's > > not working. Same thing, btw, doesn't work for $obj = new __CLASS__(); or > any > > object instantiation where the classname should come from something else > then a > > regular, scalar variable. > > > > Any discussion on the item would be great, > > Wouter > > > > > Hello - > > It is not possible to do that. > PHP new keyword does not support constant in argument, only string or > variable :-(. > > Fred. Thought so, .. but what I am interested in is why the php team (or zend) decided to not make that possible. It would result in so much better support for "packages" of modules. Especially when mixed up with some cool __autoload() tricks.