Re: template module

> Ok, this is really a problem, find a solution and get rich and famous ;-) Possible, I find a solution, now i can get rich and famous ;-) I asked for a AUTOLOAD-mechanism like provided by Perl on the ZendEngine2-ML ( see the message ...). With this mechanism, it is possible to handle such things in a clean manner. Message: --------------- > In Perl you can define a AUTOLOAD function, which will executed, when a non > existing class function is called. > > Ex: > sub AUTOLOAD { > if ($AUTOLOAD =~ /.*::get(_\w+)/ ) { > my $attr_name = $1; > *{$AUTOLOAD} = > sub {return $_[0]->{$attr_name}}; > return $_[0]->{$attr_name}; > } > croak "No such method: $AUTOLOAD"; > } > > This is a nice mechanismen to create automatic accessor methods and upward > compatibility. Could we introduced something in PHP? > > possible Ex: > function _AUTOLOAD() { > $functionname = $_AUTOLOAD['name'] ; > $functionparam = $_AUTOLOAD['param'] ; > > if( preg_match("/get[.*]/", $functionname, $varname)) { > $this -> $varname[1] = $functionparam[0] ; > return true ; // function call handled by AUTOLOAD > } > elseif( preg_match("/set[.*]/", $functionname, $varname)) { > $_AUTOLOAD['return'] = $this -> $varname[1] ; // assign return value > return true ; > } else { > return false ; // function call can' be handled by AUTOLOAD > } > } > I agree that this would be useful, actually, I implemented this for Zend Engine 1, so its really pretty simple to put it into PHP4. What is the general consensus for this function with everyone else? ---------------