I’m trying to call a static method for a namespaced class from another class with the same namespace. But the other class’ name is contained in a variable :
<?php namespace MyAppApi; use Eloquent; class Product extends Eloquent { public static function find($id) { //.... } public static function details($id) { $product = self::find($id); if($product) { $type = $product->type; // 'Book' $product = $type::find($product->id); return $product; } } }
Here is the Book
class :
<?php namespace MyAppApi; use Eloquent; class Book extends Eloquent { public static function find($id) { //.... } }
My type variable contains a valid class name here Book
. This class is in the same folder, and uses the same namespace.
This code returns the error Class 'Book' not found
.
I have tried several variations (from the SO questions I found) using backslashes, or the call_user_func
function, but nothing worked.
Anyone knows what’s wrong ?
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Answer
When using a variable to reference your class, you need to use a fully qualified name. Try this…
$type = __NAMESPACE__ . '\' . $product->type; $product = $type::find($product->id);