Re: How to implement a plugin system?

Hello Boro, Thanks for your response. However I am looking for something a bit more comprehensive :) I could do it as you suggested if I had only a few plugins. As I am going to add loads of plugins over the time, rather than adding all the plugins one by one, could something like a 'loader' class be implemented? What I mean by that is, it will take the requested plugin names (with their own parameters necessary) and load/initialise them. In semi-psuedo-code, it would be something like: foreach plugin suplied as the argument include the plugin initialise it end Perhaps I should change the question to: "Do you think something like this would be efficient and useable? If not what sort of pattern would you follow?" Warm regards, Hamza. "Borokov Smith" <borokov@gmail.com> wrote in message news:46B77B4B.9020600@gmail.com... > Hey Hamza, > > require_once($chosenPlugin . '.class.php'); > > $obj = new $chosenPlugin(); > return $obj; > > And you can start from there. > > hth, > > boro > > > > Hamza Saglam schreef: >> Hello all, >> >> I am working on a project which needs to have some sort of plugins >> architecture and I am kinda stuck. Basically I want to give a list of >> items to the user, and according to his/her selection, I want to load >> relevant functionality into my application. >> >> >> I was thinking of having an abstract plugin class, and have the >> plugins implement that but then how would I actually load the plugins? >> Say for instance I want to load plugins X,Y,Z (and lets say i >> implemented them as [X|Y|Z].class.php) , should I just 'include' (or >> require) them? Or should I initialize all possible plugins and just >> pick the ones user has chosen (which sounds a bit pointless as it >> would load unnecessary stuff)? >> >> >> How would you go about doing something like this? >> >> >> Thanks. >> >>