smth like Class.forName() in PHP?

[Sergei Riaguzov]

Is there a way to create an instance of a class SomeClass in PHP having
a string "SomeClass" ? The idea is to create instances on classes based
on dynamic information obtained from $_POST. Like

Java has a useful construct for that - Class.forName() . Is it possible
to do same in PHP? Like:

$obj = createClass($_P OST['className'])

or smth?

[Alexey Kulentsov]

Re: smth like Class.forName() in PHP?

Sergei Riaguzov wrote:

Is there a way to create an instance of a class SomeClass in PHP having
a string "SomeClass" ?

$className='Som eClass';

$var=new $className();