Re: [Coding Standards] Loading all files at once

Hi Josh, On Jul 9, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Joshua Eichorn wrote:

Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

I'm clueless as to what you're referring to here. I use PEAR, Solar, and Zend Framework regularly, and typically have them installed to a common directory, leaving me with a simple include_path of: .:/path/to/pear and never have a problem, even when using __autoload() (check out Zend_Loader::registerAutoload() for a PEAR-friendly spl_autoload implementation, btw). Could you please elaborate on the "include_path mess" that you're trying to solve with this?

Trying making this work without setting your include path.

Try making "what" work without include_path? Maybe I've been missing your point all along. Are you saying that you want PEAR2 packages always to be completely independent of include_path? If so, I don't see how setting an include_path is a problem for anyone other than neophyte PHP developers. Personally, I expect good libraries to follow the PEAR standards, which means name-spacing, and living in the PEAR directory -- which means setting that one include-path value.

Also note that you have a mix of autoload and normal includes, which may or may not give you the minimum # of required files.

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