Re: How to implement a plugin system?

I think I have a rough understanding of the whole process so I should start coding :) Many thanks to everyone for your suggestions. Regards, Hamza. ""Hamza Saglam"" <hamzasaglam@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:FD.3A.37767.22577B64@pb1.pair.com... > 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.