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How to get class by name in PHP?

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2022-02-5

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You can simply call the method on the variable, you might want to wrap an "if" around it to check if the class exists.

$className = "Model";
if (class_exists($className)) {
    $className::sayHello();
}

You can check out this 3v4l for a repro case.

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