Using Model name from Variable - laravel

Question

I have a variable which holds the model name like so
$fooTableName = 'foo_defs';
$fooModel = 'FooDefs';
Now I would like to insert in the DB using that model like so
$fooModel::insert([..foo..array...]);
Throws an error
"message": "Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '$fooModel' (T_VARIABLE), expecting identifier (T_STRING)",
Is it possible to do something like that? or will I be forced to use
DB::table('fooTableName')->insert([...foo...array...]);
If I do it in the latter way, the timestamps in the table are wrong. The created_at column is null and the updated_at has the value
EDIT 1
$model = CustomHelper::getNameSpace($this->tableNames[$i]);
// $model => /var/www/html/erp/app/Models/sales/InvoiceDefs
$model::insert($this->tableCollections[$this->tableNames[$i]]);
Most of them said that, it was namespace issue, so I have corrected it, but still it is throw error like
"message": "Class '/var/www/html/erp/app/Models/sales/InvoiceDefs' not
found",

Answer 1

What you are doing wrong is using model name as string, you need to refactor your code as like below :
$fooModel = 'App\Models\FooDefs';

Answer 2

I have a same situation before and i have created the function to do this
function convertVariableToModelName($modelName='',$nameSpace='')
{
//if the given name space iin array the implode to string with \\
if (is_array($nameSpace))
{
$nameSpace = implode('\\', $nameSpace);
}
//by default laravel ships with name space App so while is $nameSpace is not passed considering the
// model namespace as App
if (empty($nameSpace) || is_null($nameSpace) || $nameSpace === "")
{
$modelNameWithNameSpace = "App".'\\'.$modelName;
}
//if you are using custom name space such as App\Models\Base\Country.php
//$namespce must be ['App','Models','Base']
if (is_array($nameSpace))
{
$modelNameWithNameSpace = $nameSpace.'\\'.$modelName;
}
//if you are passing Such as App in name space
elseif (!is_array($nameSpace) && !empty($nameSpace) && !is_null($nameSpace) && $nameSpace !== "")
{
$modelNameWithNameSpace = $nameSpace.'\\'.$modelName;
}
//if the class exist with current namespace convert to container instance.
if (class_exists($modelNameWithNameSpace))
{
// $currentModelWithNameSpace = Container::getInstance()->make($modelNameWithNameSpace);
// use Illuminate\Container\Container;
$currentModelWithNameSpace = app($modelNameWithNameSpace);
}
//else throw the class not found exception
else
{
throw new \Exception("Unable to find Model : $modelName With NameSpace $nameSpace", E_USER_ERROR);
}
return $currentModelWithNameSpace;
}
How To user it:
Arguments
First Argument => Name of the Model
Second Argument => Namespcce of the Model
For Example we have the model name as Post
$postModel = convertVariableToModelName('Post');
dd($postModel::all());
Will returns all the values in the posts table
But in Some Situation You Model Will in the
Custom Namespace such as App\Models\Admin\User
So this function is created to overcome that
$userModel = convertVariableToModelName('User',['App','Models','Admin']);
dd($userModel::all());
You are feel free to customize the function
Hope it helps

Answer 3

Try the below one,
$fooModel = new FooDefs();
and then you can do the following also,
$fooModel->column1 = $value1;
$fooModel->column2 = $value2;
$fooModel->column2 = $value2;
$fooModel->save();
or
$fooModel->save([
'column1' => $value1,
'column2' => $value2,
'column3' => $value3,
])
Edited answer
$path = 'my\project\path\to\Models';
$fooModel = app($path.'\FooDefs');
$fooModel::save([
'column1' => $value1,
'column2' => $value2,
'column3' => $value3,
])
dd($fooModel ::all());
Try my edited answer.

Answer 4

When you have the name of class stored as string you can call method on that class by using the php method call_user_func_array like this
$class_name = "FooDefs";
call_user_func_array(array($class_name, "insert"), $data);
$data is an Array of data which will be past to the called function as arguments.
Just for simple advice It's will be Good if you save in the $class_name variable the FQN Fully Qualified Name of the class which is the __NAMESPACE__ follow by the name of the class. For sample purpose FQN look like Illuminate\Support\Facades\DB which you can get when you save you use User::class I presume you have some User model. That will return the Fully Qualified Name of the User model will will be App\User in case of Laravel.

Answer 5

$requests = $post['request'] // posting the data from view page
$models = "app\models".'\\'.$requests //geting the model
$model = $models::findOne($referenceId) //fetching value from database