Can PHP instantiate an object from the name of the class as a string?

Question

Is it possible in PHP to instantiate an object from the name of a class, if the class name is stored in a string?

Answer 1

Yep, definitely.

$className = 'MyClass';
$object = new $className;

Answer 2

Yes it is:

<?php

$type = 'cc';
$obj = new $type; // outputs "hi!"

class cc {
    function __construct() {
        echo 'hi!';
    }
}

?>