Pastable version of model loader

<pre class='prettyprint' language='php'>&lt;?php
function loadModel($model)
{
	$exclude = array (
		'.',
		'..',
		'index.html'
	);
	
	$handle = opendir(APPPATH.'models/');
	while(false !== ($files = readdir($handle)))
	{
		if(!in_array($file, $exclude))
			$modelArray[] = $files;
	}
	closedir($handle);
	
	if(in_array($model.EXT, $modelArray))
	{
		require_once(APPPATH.'models/'.$model.EXT);
	} else {
		throw new Exception('Attempting to call unknown Model');
	}
}
?&gt;</pre>
<pre class='prettyprint' language='php'>&lt;?php
//...
loadModel('blog');//Load blog model
$posts = blog_model::getRecent;
//...
?&gt;</pre>
<pre class='prettyprint' language='php'>&lt;?php

//...
	$blogObject = loadModel('blog'); //assign object to a variable
	$posts = $blogObject::getRecent();
	//...

?&gt;</pre>
<pre class='prettyprint' language='php'>So far i've managed to get errors about my use of extraneous double colons,
so im betting that php doesnt let me call methods statically like that. Any
thoughts would be helpful.</pre>
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