Question

It know it can be done with get_class($variable).
The problem is that my $object is actually a string containing the variable name.

so:

$object = new MyClass();

$var = '$object';

$class = get_class($var); // obviously fails

I can’t use get_class($object), because I don’t have direct access to that variable (I’m producing the $var string from parsing a PHP expression using token_get_all())

I tried using eval(sprintf('return get_class(%s);', $var)), but it doesn’t work because the variable appear undefined from eval’s scope 🙁

Is there a way to do this?

I need to know the class in order to pass it to ReflectionMethod, so I can get information about a method (the next element in the PHP expression).

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NVM: I’m pretty sure it is not possible. Sorry for asking:)

Answer 1

you can do

$var = new $object();