Question

For a project I’m working on, I’m trying to call a method using a property

$this->action = "home";
$action = $this->action;
$this->$action();

Is there a shorter way to do this? I tried the following, but it won’t work:

$this->action = "home";
$this->$this->action();

So I want to set the $action property, and then call the method that has the same name as $action.

Answer 1

This is probably what you want:

$this->action = "home";
$this->{$this->action}();

This works with methods and properties. $objref->{ [expression] } is the same as $objref->hello if the [expression] evaluates to hello.