Re: [Fwd: Re: PEAR framework changes for PHP5]

Jon Parise wrote:

It's probably non-obvious, but the Log package already supports this. Here's the relevant code from the Log::factory() implementation: /*

    * Attempt to include our version of the named class, but don't treat
    * a failure as fatal.  The caller may have already included their own
    * version of the named class.
    */

@include_once $classfile; /* If the class exists, return a new instance of it. */ if (class_exists($class)) {

       return new $class($name, $ident, $conf, $level);

} Heh -- that's cool; thanks for pointing that out to me. It would be great if PEAR classes would at least conform to that, then, so that it would be possible to create drivers/containers anywhere. Maybe they do & I just haven't realized it. :)

I think having a way to refer to classes would still be useful -- e.g. so that driver classes could be specified in a conf file (of course in that case it would have to a simple text representation, rather than two element array). Hans