Re: classes in php5

you are just missing the (); it wont work either in php4 or php5 that way. $className = "Foo"; $fooInstance = new $className(); Cheers On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 01:46:27PM -0600, Daniel Watrous wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a class Foo. In PHP4 I could create an instance of Foo in the following manner: > $className = "Foo"; > $fooInstance = new $className; > > This would yield the same result as: > $fooInstance = new Foo; > > In my efforts to port this over to PHP5 I am having trouble. Not only do I not get back an > instance of my Foo class, but the script execution stops entirely without so much as a warning. Is > this a bug? Is there a new mechanism in PHP5, such as a getInstance function (i.e. object > getInstance (string className))? Thanks in advance for any comments! > > Daniel -- Maciek Ruckgaber Bielecki "The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. " --Albert Einstein--