Is there a way to call a class "New"? [closed]

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Maybe a stupid question, but anyway...

Is there a way to call a class "New"?

Class New
{
    ..
}

Won't work of course, is there another way?

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new is a reserved word in php. a class with name "new" is not valid php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php

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You cannot use (most of) PHPs keywords as identifier of classes, methods or functions. Just avoid them. However, New is a really bad classname anyway, because its anything, but not self-speaking.

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No, the word "new" is a reserved keyword (in probably all modern languages). You can't name anything "new". See the documentation for more detail: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.keywords.php

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You can declare a class "New", but it requires some stupid workarounds to actually use it:

class Old { /* ... */ }
class_alias("Old", "New");

$New = "new";
$n = new $New;

That's the only way to circumvent the reserved keyword issue. (New and new are the same in PHP, as it is case-insensitive for bare identifiers.)