Question

I am not sure if this possible or if this is the right place to post this type of questions but here goes!

Is there any way to autoload a variable with a class of the same name? An example of this:

class MyClass
{
    ....
    function display() { echo 'test'; }
}

I am wondering if it is possible to do the following:

$MyClass->display();

without previously creating an instance of the MyClass class within the $MyClass variable.

As I say I am not sure if this is possible and if this is not the right place for this kind of question I will happily delete my post.

UPDATE
Thanks for all your responses guys, the more I thought about and after reading your comments I realised it just wasn’t a good idea and really wouldn’t be practical.

Thanks

Answer 1

What you can do is make your method static and call the method directly on the class:

class MyClass
{
    public static function display() { echo 'test'; }
}

MyClass::display();

Apart from that: “Autoloading” variables is not possible.