使用动态变量作为模型名称

Question

How would I go about calling a model using a dynamic variable? I thought $nameOfModel::all() would work. I have 4 different tables that need to make use of the same function.

This is what a normal call looks like tableOne::all() so I'm trying to have something like:

$table = 'tableOne';
$table = 'tableTwo';
$table = 'tableThree';
$table = 'tableFour';

$contents = $table::all();

Answer 1

If you want to use model name as a dynamic variable, you can easily achiev this with ${} call.

For variable, which you mentioned it will be:

${$nameOfModel}::all()

You can also find more details about variable names (variables, functions, ...) in PHP doc:

Variables variable

Variable functions

Based on comments I think, that you need define your class as first, so your code must look like:

$table = 'tableOne';
$table = 'tableTwo';
$table = 'tableThree';
$table = 'tableFour';

$class = new $table;
$contents = $class::all();