Question

I am implementing something like an object factory in PHP.
I have:

class Factory{
   public static function createObject($objectType){
      $object = new ObjectParent();
      //... implement specific code for objectChild of the given type 
      return $object;     
   }
}

class ObjectParent(){

}

This way, i get an object, it’s class name is going to be ObjectParent; I don’t have a class for each ObjectChild i want to create, so i would like to be able to do:

$newObject = Factory::createObject('myObjectType');
echo get_class($newObject);
//result -> 'myObjectType'

is this even possible? how?
thank you

Answer 1

public static function createObject($objectType){
  eval('class '.$objectType.' extends ObjectParent {}');
  return new $objectType();   
}