note 73561 deleted from language.oop5.autoload by cmb

Note Submitter: Klaus Schneider ---- I just stumbled over one quite nice solution to the __autoload-exception problem. It allows for any kind of exception to be thrown inside __autoload(). It appears one has to define the requested class (using "eval", which is not nice but inevitable here) and after that can simply throw an exception (and catch it if so desired): <?php function __autoload($className) { // Do your stuff to load a class here, set $ok if everything went fine. if (! $ok) { eval("class $className{};"); throw new Exception('My message'); } // if } try { UndefinedClass::undefinedFunction(); } catch (Exception $ex) { echo $ex->getMessage(); } // try/catch ?> Output: "My Message". :-)