I have considered that, but I do not like that idéa :) I want php to recognise what classes it needs to load. Have there been any improvment in this area to PHP5? I use PHP4 for the moment, but will migrate to PHP5 soon. As an "old" java programmer I feel that PHP is not that well deveolped. Was hoping that it would be some sort of library system that could be used for classes. Package? /Peter "John Holmes" <holmes072000@xxxxxxxxxxx> skrev i meddelandet news:41AE81DB.4070200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Peter Lauri wrote: > > > For the moment I have all my classes saved in a file called classes.php in a > > subdirectory /classes/. I have started to get to many classes in the same > > file. In java I do this the default way, just naming them myclass.class. Is > > there a similar way to do this so that I do not need to include every file > > as a .php class in every php that I want to use the class? > > Save each class into its own name.class.php file. > > As for the includes, if there are a lot of classes and you actually need > _all_ of them loaded, then just make one "include.php" that includes all > of the class files and then just add "include('include.php')" into each > script that needs these classes. > > You should really take a look at what classes need to be loaded in each > page, though. If you have 10 classes, but a page only uses 3 of them, > then it's a waste of time to load those other 7 classes. That's > basically what you're doing now with everything in one file. > > Think about using extra classes that load the others that are needed for > specific functios. Load a "show" class that'll load 4 of the 10 classes > needed for showing records, load an "edit" class that'll load 7 of the > 10 classes needed for editing, etc... > > -- > > ---John Holmes... > > Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ > > php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals ? www.phparch.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php