Re: Classes - Dumb question

On 10/15/07, Larry Garfield <larry@garfieldtech.com> wrote: > > On Monday 15 October 2007, Nathan Nobbe wrote: > > On 10/15/07, tedd <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: > > > I understand the class concept. But, I am not familiar with autoload. > > > > > > Stut also made mention of that, so I shall investigate post haste. > > > > __autoload is pretty tight; but if you dont want to have all your class > > files in the same > > directory, i suggest you implement something custom. > > ive seen several implementations where class names basically have > > filesystem paths > > embedded in them; ugh.. i think thats what those buxa project guys are > > doing, but im > > not certain. > > also, the __autoload() function has to be available for it to be called, > > which means you > > will have to include the file that defines it in every file that would > use > > it. since my php > > code is heavily oop; i just use the php.ini auto_prepend_file directive. > > oh; btw, Tedd, autoload is for classes only; if you like what you see > maybe > > that will be > > the excuse youve been looking for to get into oop w/ php :) > > > > -nathan > > __autoload() is also not recommended. :-) You can only have one per > script. > Instead, use spl_autoload_register(). That way you can stack multiple > autoload routines cleanly. > > (At least that's what the php-internals folks were saying the last time > the > topic came up.) > > http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.spl-autoload-register.php > neat; i didnt know about that, but i had checked out spl_autoload() before. ive defined a singleton that has a method for loading of classpaths. when __autoload is called, it delegates to the singleton to see if the classpath is valid. if theres a match it loads it, otherwise it chokes. i cant imagine having multiple __autoload methods, but perhaps if there was a third party lib that was also using autoload() theirs could be stacked on top of yours and that way they could both live together. i might give that a shot. -nathan