Re: strange autoload behavior

Derick Rethans schreef:

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008, Gergely Hodicska wrote:

exceptions thrown during autoload are ignored.

And one more thing, this is in the manual: "Note: Exceptions thrown in __autoload function cannot be caught in the catch block and results in a fatal error." I think your explanation makes much more clear what happens, maybe it would worth to upgrade the manual. While the quoted text suggests that that if throw an exception I just can't catch it and will bubble up to top level and this cause the fatal error.

You can actually catch it *in* the autoload method, it just wouldn't bubble out of it.

the manual could do with that tidbit, maybe also the hack for 'getting the exception out' of __autoload() ... function __autoload($class) { try { throw new Exception('foo');

		} catch (Exception $e) {		    		
		    self::handleDebug($e);

		    if (!class_exists($class, false))
                	eval(sprintf('
                    class %1$s
                    {
                        public         function __construct()        { throw new AL_Exception("Class %1$s not found: %2$s"); }
                        public         function __call($m, $a)       { throw new AL_Exception("Class %1$s not found: %2$s"); }
                        public  static function __callStatic($m, $a) { throw new AL_Exception("Class %1$s not found: %2$s"); }
                    }', $class, $e->__toString())); 			

} } which works best when __autoload() isn't triggered by class_exists("Foo", true)

regards, Derick