Re: conditionally including classes/functions

> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Warner [mailto:andrew@like.com] > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:29 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] conditionaly including classes/functions > > Is it okay practice to condtionally include php files that contain > only classes or functions (as opposed to just straight code)? The > result is a class or function inserted right in the middle of an if{} > block: I would find it much more useful to do something like a transparent include-on-first-use; for a function this shouldn't be too hard, but I have no idea how to make it work for a class short of wrapping every method independantly. function MyLazy($a) { if (!function_exists("contentsMyLazy")) include("contentsmylazy.php"); // define the function return contentsMyLazy($a); }