DevShed: The Autoload Magic Function in PHP 5

Courtesy PHPDeveloper.org  Tue, 06/23/2009 - 06:56

DevShed has posted the latest article (the last) in their series looking at the "magic functions" that PHP has to offer.

This time they take a closer look at the autoload functionality.

PHP 5 offers yet another magic method that can be extremely useful for loading classes automatically, without having to use explicitly any "include()/include_once()" or "require()/require_once()" function.

As the article's title suggests, I'm talking specifically about the "__autoload()" function, which deserves a deeper analysis.

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