I know that it is possible to call a function with a variable number of parameters with call_user_func_array() found here -> http://php.net/manual/en/function.call-user-func-array.php . What I want to do is nearly identical, but instead of a function, I want to call a PHP class with a variable number of parameters in it's constructor.
It would work something like the below, but I won't know the number of parameters, so I won't know how to instantiate the class.
<?php //The class name will be pulled dynamically from another source $myClass = '\Some\Dynamically\Generated\Class'; //The parameters will also be pulled from another source, for simplicity I //have used two parameters. There could be 0, 1, 2, N, ... parameters $myParameters = array ('dynamicparam1', 'dynamicparam2'); //The instantiated class needs to be called with 0, 1, 2, N, ... parameters //not just two parameters. $myClassInstance = new $myClass($myParameters[0], $myParameters[1]);
You can do the following using ReflectionClass
$myClass = '\Some\Dynamically\Generated\a';
$myParameters = array ('dynamicparam1', 'dynamicparam2');
$reflection = new \ReflectionClass($myClass);
$myClassInstance = $reflection->newInstanceArgs($myParameters);
PHP manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reflectionclass.newinstanceargs.php
In php 5.6 you can achieve this with Argument unpacking.
$myClass = '\Some\Dynamically\Generated\a';
$myParameters = ['dynamicparam1', 'dynamicparam2'];
$myClassInstance = new $myClass(...$myParameters);