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Bug #21669 "$obj = new $this->var;" doesn't work
Submitted: 2003-01-15 11:56 UTC Modified: 2003-06-22 05:58 UTC
Votes:2
Avg. Score:4.0 ± 1.0
Reproduced:2 of 2 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (50.0%)
Same OS:1 (50.0%)
From: slowbyte at hot dot ee Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5CVS-2003-01-15 (dev) OS:
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2003-01-15 11:56 UTC] slowbyte at hot dot ee 
The following snippet is a parse error in PHP5-ZE2 (used to work on earlier versions). This feature is also used in Smarty templates.

<?php
class Test {
	function say_hello() {
		echo "Hello world";
	}
}

class Factory {
	var $name = "Test";
	function create() {
		$obj = new $this->name; /* Parse error */
		return $obj;
	}
}
$factory = new Factory;
$test = $factory->create();
$test->say_hello();
?>

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 [2003-01-28 19:55 UTC] yoglets at hotmail dot com 
Don't know if this is the same issue or not, but it's certainly related. You can't use $obj = new $name for nested classes either. For example:

<?php

class Foo {
    class Bar {
    }
}

$obj1 = new Foo;  // works

$obj2 = new Foo::Bar;  // works

$name = 'Foo';
$obj3 = new $name;  // works

$name = 'Foo::Bar';
$obj4 = new $name;  // Fatal error: Class 'foo::bar' not found

?>
 [2003-02-18 12:51 UTC] yoglets at hotmail dot com 
FWIW, this problem is still present in a post-nested-class ZE2 build:

<?php

namespace Foo
{
    class Bar
    {
    }
}

$name = 'Foo::Bar';
$obj = new $name;
print_r($obj);

?>
 [2003-03-02 05:15 UTC] sander@php.net 
Verified with latest CVS.
 [2003-06-15 07:17 UTC] stas@php.net 
This is due to dynamic_class_name chain of rules, which does not allow property references. Somebody with more parser knowledge (which means Zeev or Andi, I guess :) should look at it.
 [2003-06-22 05:58 UTC] zeev@php.net 
This bug has been fixed in CVS.

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