Dynamic loading

by vlado on Tue, 2006-07-25 11:21

Intent

Keep working set small and mainatin fast start time by loading features as required

Implementation

use __autoload()

Example

function autoload( $classname) {
  list($path,$file) = loadpath( $classname );
  require_once "$path/$file";
}

Notes

we are loading a file, based on some conventions interpreted in loadpath
This can be used to implement module-like system, but the lack of subclasses or similar tools makes the 'module' bindings always transparent

dikini.net