spark at limao dot com dot br (2011-08-15 14:21:21)

if you want a Dynamic class you can extend from, add atributes AND methods on the fly you can use this:
<?php
    class Dynamic extends stdClass{
        public function __call($key,$params){
            if(!isset($this->{$key})) throw new Exception("Call to undefined method ".get_class($this)."::".$key."()");
            $subject = $this->{$key};
            call_user_func_array($subject,$params);
        }
    }
?>

this will accept both arrays, strings and Closures:
<?php
    $dynamic->myMethod = "thatFunction";
    $dynamic->hisMethod = array($instance,"aMethod");
    $dynamic->newMethod = array(SomeClass,"staticMethod");
    $dynamic->anotherMethod = function(){
        echo "Hey there";
    };
?>

then call them away =D

Typer85 at gmail dot com (2007-02-17 08:58:57)

In response to the note below mine,
This list is not incomplete. Read the Manual folks, its listed there plain and simple:
"This section lists standard predefined classes. Miscellaneous extensions define other classes which are described in their reference."
Depending on what extensions you have, they might define their own classes. This list is just the standard classes as defined by PHP with no regards to extensions.

Simon Kissane (2004-09-14 00:54:18)

The above list is incomplete. For example, on my PHP 5.0 configuration (yours may differ depending on the extensions you choose to install), the following classes are predefined:
== "Core" ==
stdClass
Exception
__PHP_Incomplete_Class
php_user_filter
Directory
== Reflection API ==
ReflectionException
Reflection
ReflectionFunction
ReflectionParameter
ReflectionMethod
ReflectionClass
ReflectionObject
ReflectionProperty
ReflectionExtension
== SQLLite ==
SQLiteDatabase
SQLiteResult
SQLiteUnbuffered
SQLiteException
== Standard PHP Lib. ==
RecursiveIteratorIterator
FilterIterator
ParentIterator
LimitIterator
CachingIterator
CachingRecursiveIterator
ArrayObject
ArrayIterator
DirectoryIterator
RecursiveDirectoryIterator
== SimpleXML ==
SimpleXMLElement
SimpleXMLIterator
== DOM/XSL/XPath extensions ==
DOMException
DOMStringList
DOMNameList
DOMImplementationList
DOMImplementationSource
DOMImplementation
DOMNode
DOMNameSpaceNode
DOMDocumentFragment
DOMDocument
DOMNodeList
DOMNamedNodeMap
DOMCharacterData
DOMAttr
DOMElement
DOMText
DOMComment
DOMTypeinfo
DOMUserDataHandler
DOMDomError
DOMErrorHandler
DOMLocator
DOMConfiguration
DOMCdataSection
DOMDocumentType
DOMNotation
DOMEntity
DOMEntityReference
DOMProcessingInstruction
DOMStringExtend
DOMXPath
XSLTProcessor

unknown (2002-07-23 10:29:06)

It's handy to have a array of the reserved classes.....
var_dump (get_declared_classes ());