Hi Paul, Swiftlet implements PSR-0, an unofficial standard that many of the larger frameworks seem to be adopting. It simply maps namespaces to a path, e.g. Foo\Bar\Baz translates to Foo/Bar/Baz.php. The advantage is that you should be able to drop in third-party libraries which are included by the same autoloader and without naming conflicts. https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md Elbert > > Hi Simon, > > > > I think you're right that I may be abusing the constructor a bit. I'm going > > to follow your suggestion and split it up into smaller functions. I'm also > > thinking of moving the set_error_handler and spl_autoload_register > > functions to index.php where Swiftlet is bootstrapped so they can be > > changed. > > I didn't look thoroughly at your code (though, if the respondent's > perceptions were correct, I'd have to agree with his prescriptions for > improvement). But I wanted to make a comment about autoloaders, since > you mentioned it. > > My philosophy, since autoloading was introduced, was that it was a cool > way to avoid having a lot of complicated file inclusion calls all over > the place. Just tell the autoloader function where different types of > files were located, and then just instantiate classes as you like. Easy. > > But I recently did some work for one of these companies with a million > file internally developed framework. And at the top of each file, they'd > include a require_once() (or similar) call for each of the files which > would be called if you needed to instantiate a class from any of those > files. So rather than putting all the magic in an autoloader function, > they'd simply include the file where they knew it would be needed. > (E.g., you know you're going to be calling your Date class in this file, > so you put a require_once() call to the file that contains it at the top > of this file.) > > The more I've thought about it since then, the more I've considered it a > Good Thing(tm). It makes troubleshooting existing code a whole lot > easier. I don't have to wonder what the autoloader is doing or where the > files are, on which the current file depends. It sort of obviates the > autoloader stuff, but I'd rather do that than spend hours trying to > track down which file in which directory contains the class which paints > the screen blue or whatever. (Yes, I'm aware that require_once() > introduces some latency.) > > Just something to consider. > > Paul > > -- > Paul M. Foster > http://noferblatz.com > http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
