[SOLVED] Assigning function to variable

[Valect]

I've been trying to pass a function name to a variable to store it and run it later.. here's a snippet:

$this->timer(1,"ping",$this->action->ping(),REPEAT);

Not putting "$this->action->ping()" in quotes runs it, however putting it in quotes results in the error:

Catchable fatal error: Object of class actions could not be converted to string...

function timer($wait,$name,$what,$repeat) {
$this->holder['timer'][$name]['runtime']	= time() + $wait;
$this->holder['timer'][$name]['interval']	= $wait;
$this->holder['timer'][$name]['execTimer']	= $what;
$this->holder['timer'][$name]['repeat']		= $repeat
}

Later in the script is the line to run the function...

$this->holder['timer'][$name]['execTimer'];

 

I've tried serizlization and some other methods.. I think I'm just going about this all wrong. Any ideas?

[kratsg]

Why do you have $this->action->ping()?

 

What is the 'action' part of it? If you're calling it within the same class, you just need $this->ping()

[Valect]

it's another class...

$this->action = new actions();

Just the way I set it up, not really relevant to what I'm trying to do

[Valect]

Any other ideas? I'm really at a loss here.

[Valect]

I solved this with

eval("$".$this->holder['timer'][$name]['execTimer'].";");

and by setting it with

$this->timer(1,"ping",this->action->ping(),REPEAT);

 

Took me a good 6 hours to figure out, hope someone else benefits from this >.<