Dynamic class name PHP laravel

Question

I am using Laravel and cannot create a class with a string. The class is in the same space name of the class that calls it.

The following code does not work on the third line, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong.

$class= "Variant";
$s = new Variant();
$nc = new $class();

Answer 1

This is actually a namespace:

$s = new \OneNamespaceName\Variant();

This is often used in a Factory pattern. So namespaces are per-file, so you need to include this in the class declaration for Variant.

Answer 2

Ok, the answer to this question is: I need a namespace in the class.

In composer.json

"psr-4": {
    "SplitTest\\": "app/library/SplitTest/"
}

Then called the class as follows:

$class= "//SplitTest//Variant";
$s = new Variant();
$nc = new $class();

psr-4,

php artisan dump-auto