Re: User-space overloading extension

Andrei Zmievski wrote: > > This extension has sprung up from an idea someone mentioned on this list > which concerned an ability to hook into object's property access and > method calls from user-space. I did the initial hack in a couple of > hours as a proof of concept and been tinkering with it on and off since > then. I think it's at a point right now where it can benefit from some > feedback, so download it at the following URL and play with it. > > http://cvs.php.net/~andrei/overload.tar.gz > > For those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about, this extension > lets classes handle their property access indirectly, via method calls. > Each read and write to an object property will generate a call to an > appropriately name __get() or __set() method of the object which can > then do whatever it wishes with the information passed to it. See > included README file for an example. > > It's still very much under development and I also want to know where the > best place for it is: core, PEAR, or somewhere else? The functionality > it provides touches core pretty closely. Hi, I see this as a core extension, since it's basically an extension of PHP's OO functionality. - Stig