note 77538 deleted from function.unserialize by aharvey

Note Submitter: cory at lavacube dot com ---- Problem: I needed a way to call an object that I did not know the name of. This forced me to use a variable for the class name. Solution: unserialize(); Unserialize supports opening objects/classes from a serialized string. In order to do so I had to do something to this effect: <?php // this is the variable part $class_name = 'Some_Obscure_Class'; // here is where we take the name and dynamically create a serialize-compliant string. $quickload = 'O:' . strlen($class_name) . ':"' .$class_name. '":0:{}'; // and here we inject the string into unserialize, this creating an object! :-) $object = unserialize($quickload); ?> From here I used the __wakeup() magic function to initialize/construct the class as needed. :-)