Get value of dynamically chosen class constant in PHP

Question

I would like to be able to do something like this:

class ThingIDs
{
    const Something = 1;
    const AnotherThing = 2;
}

$thing = \'Something\';
$id = Thi         


        

Answer 1

My problem was similiar to this subject. When you have the object, but not the class name, you could use:

$class_name = get_class($class_object);
$class_const = 'My_Constant';

$constant_value = constant($class_name.'::'.$class_const);