how do I spawn the parent class from this string into a include string?

[BigBadKev]

Hi all,

My infamous debug class is growing and i am now spawning the parent from the child to get the parent vars and methods for outputting.
The code below is rather crude but does work but is there a better way to append the file extension?

//.....class declared etc etc (remember this works).....
//$debug is the child
$parentClass = get_parent_class($debug);
if($parentClass != "") {
  $classLength = strlen($parentClass);
  $parentClass = $parentClass . ".php";
  $getClassPath = "require_once(\"$parentClass\");";
  eval($getClassPath);
  //sub string $parentClass back so chop  the extension off
  $parentClass = substr($parentClass, 0, $classLength);
  //the start of the parent object
  $parentObject = NULL; 
  $spawnObject = "\$parentObject = new $parentClass; "; 
  eval($spawnObject); 
  //.....get parent vars, methods, manipulate the two arrays 
}

Two questions
1. how do I destroy my spawned object?
2. how do I append the file extension better?

Big thanks in advance and I only just realised you have to put resolved when resolved..sorry for other unresolved posts.

BBK
🙂