In CodeIgniter 3, Can I create a new Class instance using a variable?

Question

This code works...

$season_view_builder =  new Hockey_season_view_builder($season_id);

However, if I use the following code I get the white screen of death.

$builder = 'Hockey_season_view_builder';
$season_view_builder =  new $builder($season_id);

Can CodeIgniter create new class instances from a variable name? Is there some kind of weird codeigniter syntax to this?

I really need to generate and return new classes dynamically to make my factory pattern work.

Thanks for any help! I'll keep trying different approaches and post if I find anything.

Answer 1

I was looking at another post and saw the correct answer which had to do with using namespaces. I've kind of hacked my CodeIgniter to use namespaces so I needed to do

$builder = 'Hockey_season_view_builder';
$var = __NAMESPACE__ . '\\' . $builder;
$season_view_builder =  new $var($season_id);

Thank you and sorry about the foolish question.