note 111875 added to function.spl-autoload-register

What I said here previously is only true on Windows. The built-in default autoloader that is registered when you call spl_autoload_register() without any arguments simply adds the qualified class name plus the registered file extension (.php) to each of the include paths and tries to include that file. Example (on Windows): include paths: - "." - "d:/projects/phplib" qualified class name to load: network\http\rest\Resource Here's what happens: PHP tries to load '.\\network\\http\\rest\\Resource.php' -> file not found PHP tries to load 'd:/projects/phplib\\network\\http\\rest\\Resource.php' -> file found and included Note the slashes and backslashes in the file path. On Windows this works perfectly, but on a Linux machine, the backslashes won't work and additionally the file names are case-sensitive. That's why on Linux the quick-and-easy way would be to convert these qualified class names to slashes and to lowercase and pass them to the built-in autoloader like so: <?php spl_autoload_register( function ($pClassName) { spl_autoload(strtolower(str_replace("\\", "/", $pClassName))); } ); ?> But this means, you have to save all your classes with lowercase file names. Otherwise, if you omit the strtolower call, you have to use the class names exactly as specified by the file name, which can be annoying for class names that are defined with non-straightforward case like e. g. XMLHttpRequest. I prefer the lowercase approach, because it is easier to use and the file name conversion can be done automatically on deploying. ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.199 Probable Submitter: 95.91.69.19 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.spl-autoload-register.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/111875 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111875/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111875/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111875/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111875/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111875/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111875/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/111875 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/111875 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php