php symfony user_call_func on object (non static)

Question

i'm trying to call a getter of an object dynamically (the getter is in a string) but it won't work:

$getterName = "get" . $name; //creation of the getter name like getFirstname
$value = call_user_func(array($player, $getterName()));

$player is an instance of myBundle\Entity\Player I'm running this code in a controller of another symfony bundle.

My error:

Uncaught PHP Exception Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\UndefinedFunctionException: "Attempted to call function "getFirstname" from the global namespace."

I don't know how to solve this, does someone have an idea ?

Thanks

Answer 1

With $getterName() you're calling a global function: getFirstname. If you want call the getFirstname method of the myBundle\Entity\Player class, then you need to call it with:

$value = call_user_func(array($player, $getterName));