Re: Autoloading with namespaces in 5.3.0

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Eddie Drapkin <oorza2k5@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey, I'm looking to start playing with 5.3.0, and thus by extension, > namespaces. One of the things that I definitely need support for is > autoloading, and the docs aren't exactly explicit in some (obvious to me) > cases. > > I have an autoloading class that internally handles file-not-found errors > and the like and a set of methods that get registered via > spl_autoload_register. I'm wondering if there's any way that the > autoloader > - which won't exist inside a namespace - can handle classes with the same > name in several different namespaces. Say, for example, I have three > directories foo/, bar/, and baz/ and each of those corresponds to a > same-named namespace, and each also has a class named ExampleClass. If I > try to instantate a foo\ExampleClass, does the classname get set in the > autoloader method as "ExampleClass" or "foo\ExampleClass"? If the former, > is there any way to determine the namespace name so I don't accidentally > autoload bar\ExampleClass or baz\ExampleClass? > i seem to remember a while back, someone saying the entire namespace will now be passed into the __autoload() function, whereas before it was just the classname. your autoload logic should be equipped to handle different classes w/ the same name, in different namespaces. -nathan