Use variable as class name?

[scottnicol]

I'm creating a basic MVC framework, but I'm stuck on one thing, and that is trying to get a class to be assigned to a variable, where the class name is a variable...

 

        include("system/controllers/".$id."_Controller.php");
$controller = new $id();

 

$id is the name of the class.

 

[Matthias_]

$sClass = "system/controllers/{$id}_Controller.php";

include ($sClass);

 

Try that?

[trq]

Your code is syntactically correct (except you don't actually need to braces after the class name), what exactly is the problem?

[scottnicol]

It works fine, but I'm just wondering if it's possible to change $controller to the value of $id.

 

$id = home;

$home = $controller;

 

I did this:

include("system/controllers/".$id."_Controller.php");
${$id} = new $id;

 

and when I use

 

$home->showTest();

 

It works. Would that be considered okay to use?

[trq]

Why would you need to have the variable named after the controller?