Tutorial by Examples: autoloading

// autoload.php spl_autoload_register(function ($class) { require_once "$class.php"; }); // Animal.php class Animal { public function eats($food) { echo "Yum, $food!"; } } // zoo.php require 'autoload.php'; $animal = new Animal; $animal->e...

// autoload.php spl_autoload_register(function ($class) { require_once "$class.php"; }); // Animal.php class Animal { public function eats($food) { echo "Yum, $food!"; } } // Ruminant.php class Ruminant extends Animal { public function eat...

Composer generates a vendor/autoload.php file. You might simply include this file and you will get autoloading for free. require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; This makes working with third-party dependencies very easy. You can also add your own code to the Autoloader by adding an autoload ...

While composer provides a system to manage dependencies for PHP projects (e.g. from Packagist), it can also notably serve as an autoloader, specifying where to look for specific namespaces or include generic function files. It starts with the composer.json file: { // ... "autoload&q...

Rails files - and Ruby files in general - should be named with lower_snake_case filenames. E.g. app/controllers/application_controller.rb is the file that contains the ApplicationController class definition. Note that while PascalCase is used for class and module names, the files in which they r...

Technically, autoloading works by executing a callback when a PHP class is required but not found. Such callbacks usually attempt to load these classes. Generally, autoloading can be understood as the attempt to load PHP files (especially PHP class files, where a PHP source file is dedicated for a ...

Nobody wants to require or include every time a class or inheritance is used. Because it can be painful and is easy to forget, PHP is offering so called autoloading. If you are already using Composer, read about autoloading using Composer. What exactly is autoloading? The name basically says it al...

For libraries that specify autoload information, Composer generates a vendor/autoload.php file. You can simply include this file and you will get autoloading for free. require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php'; This makes it really easy to use third party code. For example: If your project depend...