I've recently written a "framework" that's part of a planned
software product line. One of the consequences is that I've written
command-line PHP scripts that need to deal with objects that didn't
exist when the script was written, so I needed an autoloader.
I did some research and I was really impressed with A.J. Brown's
dynamic autoloader:
http://ajbrown.org/blog/2008/12/02/an-auto-loader-using-php-tokenizer.html
Rather than assuming a certain convention for how file names relate
to class names, it scans directory trees, parses files and creates a
mapping. This adds some overhead, but that can be reduced by using
serialize() to cache the result. I've written some thought about this up:
http://gen5.info/q/2009/01/09/an-awesome-autoloader-for-php/
Any thoughts?
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