OOP - Dynamically choosing which Class to call?

[hagen00]

Hi there

I want to do the following

$Class = $objCountry->AddressTableName;
$objSelectedCountry = $Class::Load($intID);

Can you kind of understand what I'm trying to do? I'm trying to get which class to call the load method from, from the DB.

Is this possible? The above is throwing an error, but should explain what I'm trying to do.

Thanks for your help

[laserlight]

If Load() was not static (and actually, even if it is), you could do a:

$class = $objCountry->AddressTableName;
$instance = new $class();
$objSelectedCountry = $instance->Load($intID);

That said, this looks like a rather crude form of polymorphism. There may be better ways of doing it, but we can only tell you if you give us the bigger picture of what you are trying to solve.

[hagen00]

Thanks, this will work fine for now...