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Dynamic Models in Base Controller

Trying to implement a basic CRUD controller.

In the parent controllers I define which model will be used for that specific controller. In the base class I then want to be able to say something like:

$model = $this->getModelName(); //This function is defined in every controller
$model = new $model;

Now I cant do the new $model due to it not being loaded in the namespace. What is the best way of going about that? I dont really want to go down the route of having a 20 line use statement at the top of the controller or is that the only option?



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Pretty simple actually but not obvious straight away as my models are outside of the normal phalcon app structure. I just predefine the namespace and it works as expected.

$model = '\\models\\' . $this->getModelName();
$model = new $model();