Question

I have

$test = 'SomeClass';
$ins = new $test;

I want to be able to catch the error if the name for $test doesn’t exist.

I’m not sure what type of exception it threw as PHP didn’t gave me anything.

Answer 1

Use class_exists().

Check first like this:

if(class_exists($test)){
    $ins = new $test;
}else{
    die("Could not load class'" . $test ."'");
}