Re: Feauture request/proposal: import

Hi Andreas, Check Stanislav's package proposal on php-dev. I think he posted it one or two weeks ago. - Stig Andreas Aderhold wrote: > > Hi All, > > What do you guys think of a import feauture for php. This allows developers > to use packages and a package trees for including files. We're using a php > written import for the binarycloud app framework with grat success. It's > extremly handy, easy to use, clear and straight forward. > > We currently have the following syntax if we want to "include" a file. > > import("binarycloud.core.Request"); > > The import method now does the following: > > Look up global import map, > > if package already included > > return > > else > > include(PACKAGE_BASE."/binarycloud/core/Request.php"); > > Set "binarycloud.core.Request" => true in the global > > import map. > > The benefits are outstanding. You don't have to mess around with path names > and the package-path's can be logically structured. Ok, you can achive this > with include too, but import seems more flexibe and abstracted from the > filesystem. So somehting like "binarycloud.db.Template" could be something > within a database or ldap or whatever in the future. > > I don't know the interna of php but I think a native and basic > implementation in C will be a matter of some hours because this is based on > include. > > I thought of also having a php.ini setting like: > > import_bases=./:/path/to/base1:/path/to/base/2 > > or something like that. The syntax itself should be the same as with > include: > > import "package.File"; and > > import("package.File"); > > This might also be interesting for PEAR to have a more clear structure: > > import php.pear.PEAR > > import php.pear.Cache > > ... > > The only "drawback" I currently see is that you can't use dots in filenames. > But that's also useful for people who love it clear ;-) > > For the binarycloud implementation of import see: > > http://binarycloud.tigris.org/source/browse/binarycloud/r2/binarycloud/base/C¯ > G{›ñ$Ühþ«~}u > init/prepend.php?rev=1.6&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup > > What do you think? > > Andi > > -- > > www.thyrell.com > > a.aderhold@thyrell.com > > -- > PEAR Development Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: pear-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: pear-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net