Did you already tried $mydata = Event; ?

Thanks for the reply, yes, I've tried $mydata = Event; but I'm getting the error.

FatalErrorException in Facade.php line 207:

Call to undefined method Illuminate\Events\Dispatcher::all()

give a try here: http://forumsarchive.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?pid=66385#p66385

Thank you, however that only explains half of the problem though, so isn't quite the solution.

So 'Event' is a word that is already has an alias (so the original example is a bad one, and breaks for the wrong reason).

So I've tried using this instead.

$mydata = "Link";
$results = $mydata::all();

but I now get the error:

FatalErrorException in AdminController.php line 36:

Class 'Link' not found

but if I just call it as normal without the variable like this:

$results = Link::all();

This works, I get all the results from the Links table - so the class does exist, but it's not liking it when I try to pass it as a variable.

Maybe try this?

$className = "Link";
$results = {$className}::all();

fetch404 said:

Maybe try this?

$className = "Link";
$results = {$className}::all();

Thanks, but it's not liking the opening {

syntax error, unexpected '{'

ModestasV said:

After I encountered this problem I just did like this:

$className = "MyClass"; // Include your namespace in here if you are calling this dynamicly
$class = new $className;
$results = $class::all();

Thanks, that's just about it!, but I have a question....

So this works....

$className = "\App\Link";
$class = new $className;
$results = $class::all();

but because I've declared at the top of the page shouldn't this be possible?

use App\Link;

$className = "Link";
$class = new $className;
$results = $class::all();

... it does however error

Class 'Link' not found

As for this problem - I don't know solution. I just included namespace before every class :)

ModestasV said:

As for this problem - I don't know solution. I just included namespace before every class :)

Thank you very much :)