Re: autoload, include_once naming conventions

Paul M Jones wrote:

Lukas Smith wrote:

while talking with Derick about what we dont like about PHP5 in Budapest I got an idea ... Basically what if we would replace all (require|include)_once calls with a static PEAR method. This method would get a class name passed and would simply do an class_exists() call and if the class do include the code by replacing "_" to "/".

This sounds very much like what I'm doing with the Solar project (http://solarphp.com). You make the call like this: // will look for Some/Class/Name.php $obj = Solar::object('Some_Class_Name');

I wouldnt want this static method to return an instance of an object. it should only be concerned with ensuring that the requested class is defined or delegate the task to __autoload() if defined. regards, Lukas