note 85161 deleted from function.spl-autoload-register by danbrown

Note Submitter: emailmatthijs at gmail dot com ---- This is my version of making it possible to throw exceptions within autoload functions. I liked the functions which used __construct and __callStatic to throw the exceptions, but I did not want to relay on __callStatic because it only exists since PHP version 5.3.0. I tested all three examples below in PHP version 5.2.6. The class named Test and Test_Interface did both not exists. <?php new Test(); Test::test(); class Test implements Test_Interface {} ?> In all three cases it succesfully throwed the exception without any fatal errors. <?php function __autoload($sClass) { try { throw new Exception('It works'); } catch (Exception $oException) { throwAutoloadException($sClass, $oException); } } function throwAutoloadException($sClass, Exception $oException) { // The use of eval is risky, because it could be easily exploited. To prefend // that the use of eval in this method could be exploited we make sure that the // variable contains only the allowed characters of a class name. if (preg_match('/^[a-zA-Z_\x7f-\xff][a-zA-Z0-9_\x7f-\xff]*$/', $sClass)) { eval('class '.$sClass.' { static public function throwException() { throw unserialize(\''.serialize($oException).'\'); } } '.$sClass.'::throwException();'); } } ?>