PHP Autoload Manager - Simple, efficient and flexible

In: PHP| PHP Framework| Programming language

2 May 2009

A friend and I have been working on different projects together. We recently decided to share one of our script to the open source community.

The name of the tool is the Autoload Manager.

The AutoLoad Manager is a generic autoloader that can be used with any PHP framework or library. Using the PHP tokenizer mechanism, it will parse folder(s) and discover the different classes and interfaces defined. The big advantage of using this autoloadManager is that it will allow you to implement whatever naming rules you want and may have mutliple classes in one file (if you want to have a such feature).

So basically, you don’t have anymore to implement some complex naming rules between the filename and the classname. You may organize the way you want your API (may have as many subfolders as you want, you may have multiple API folders, etc.).

Would you like to know more about it ? Then, check the documentation here.


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My name is Bashar Al-Fallouji and this is my Blog. I currently work at Nstein as a Senior Solution Architect & Business Analyst. Nstein Technologies develops and markets multilingual solutions that power digital publishing for the most prestigious newspapers, magazines, and content-driven organizations.

I am particularly interested in Web applications, Open Source Development, Software Engineering, Information Architecture, Unit Testing, XP/Agile development, etc.

On this blog, you will find mostly technical articles and thoughts around PHP, OOP, OOD, Unit Testing, etc. I am also sharing a few open source tools and scripts.

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