Question

I’m just curious as to if creating an object on the fly is possible in PHP. I thought I’d seen it done before. Of course I can just assign it to a variable but just wondering if this possible.

new className()->someMethod();

Of course this throws a syntax error, so obviously it’s not done like that (if it’s even possible).
Should I just assign it to a variable, as I really have no problems with doing that I was just curious?

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Just some further details. Static methods aren’t really an option as the class I was trying to do this for was PHPs ReflectionMethod class.

Answer 1

This only works if you are using a singleton-pattern for instanciating the object. If you are not aware of how to implement the singleton-pattern, you’ll have to search around the web. But this way it would work:

className::getInstance()->someMethod();

EDIT

As stated by zerkms a factory-method would also be possible:

class ReflectionFactory
{
    public static function factory($arguments)
    {
        return new ReflectionClass($arguments);
    }
}

// Then in your code for example
ReflectionFactory::factory()->getConstants();