Class Not Found

[japatchett@codeplex]

I'm trying to compile some class libraries I've written in PHP but having a problem with one part where it loads some plugins. All it needs to do is instantiate the class based on the name.

I've quickly written a spike to reproduce the problem :

<?

import namespace TEST;

namespace TEST
{

class hellotest
{
function hello()
{
return "hello world";
}
}

Export
class Library
{
function hello()
{
$hi='hellotest';

$e=new $hi();
return $e->hello();
}
}


}
?>

The class "Library" is then instantiated in a C# windows application where it calls the "hello" method and displays the result in a text box.

If I hardcode the class name i.e. $e=new hellotest(); everything is fine, but when trying to do it dynamically I getClass 'hellotest' Not Found. I've tinkered with the namespaces, with, without, using TEST:::hellotest etc... but everything give the same error.

I also attempted to use eval : eval('$e=new hellotest();'); but it gives the same error whether hardcoded in the eval string or built dynamically.

without this working my forray into Phalanger comes to an end, which would be a shame as I jumped for joy last night on discovering it - a truely awsome project :)

[japatchett@codeplex]

Having browsed through the issues database looks like this is a bug. For me, since only myself and my small development team are the people writing plugins I'm just going to create a classresolver class in a seperate assembly that maps the string to hardcoded instantiations. Not ideal, but worth the hack to be able to use the Phalanger.