note 98687 added to language.oop5.autoload

file_exists would work perfectly fine, unless people intentionally create directories ending with ".php". However sometimes classes can be called either "MyClass.php" or "MyClass.class.php"... I have a number of configuration constants defined (before the autoload function) i.e: <?php // in: config.php define('DEV_MODE', 1); $error_reporting = error_reporting(DEV_MODE ? E_ALL : 0); define('CONF_DIR_LIB', '/path/to/classes/'); ?> Finally inside the config.php after my constants, i define the autoload... A. DEV_MODE when 1 or true, will show all errors. B. DEV_MODE when 0 or false, will supress ALL errors including those thrown from inside classes. <?php // also in: config.php function __autoload($f) { if (($f1 = file_exists($c1 = CONF_DIR_LIB . "$f.class.php")) || ($f2 = file_exists($c2 = CONF_DIR_LIB . "$f.php"))) if (DEV_MODE) include_once ($f1 ? $c1 : $c2); else @include_once ($f1 ? $c1 : $c2); } ?> I hope this helps anyone :) ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 81.137.71.201 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.autoload.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/98687 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98687/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98687/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98687/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98687/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98687/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98687/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/98687 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/98687 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php