How can I call a static method from a class if all I have is a string of the class name?

Question

How would I get something like this to work?

$class_name = \'ClassPeer\';
$class_name::doSomething();

Answer 1

Reflection (PHP 5 supports it) is how you'd do this. Read that page and you should be able to figure out how to invoke the function like that.

$func = new ReflectionFunction('somefunction');
$func->invoke();

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