Bug #17900 Updated: Unset() for function and class namespace

ID: 17900 Updated by: Sky@quit-clan.de Reported By: Sky@quit-clan.de -Status: Won't fix +Status: Open Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: Any PHP Version: 4.2.1 New Comment: ok, i got answers like this a thousand times. i am using php to write a console script. it should be able to dynamically load "modules" like DLLs under windows. These modules are, of course, coded in php and contain classes. the first time when such a module is executed by "eval" all classes in it are defined in class namespace, everything is fine. now i want to unload the module - who would i undefine it's class? even if i didn't use classes - functions can't be undefined, either. any other suggestions of how to implement a "DLL" like system? the only solution i can think of was encapsulating a general module in an class, instanciating it for every module i load, and call it's functions by the objects interface. but this will disable me from directly calling methods in my module... i know this sounds weird, but php is such a flexible language, it should be able to load functions/objects dynamically!! this would be great. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-21 10:53:57] derick@php.net uhm? this sounds like a VERY bad idea to me... and very clumsy programming. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-06-21 10:51:15] Sky@quit-clan.de This is another Feature request for special script parsing: Currently there is the possibility to unset() variables. But i want the option to clear the function/class namespace, too. A call like unfunction('foobar'); sould make a redefine of function foobar() in eval()'d code possible, for example. Same thing for classes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=17900&edit=1