Comments on: Advantages of using the PEAR class naming convention

By: Lorenzo Alberton

Lorenzo Alberton — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:38:41 +0000

A clarification note (i.e. an excuse to say ‘hallo!’):

DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is available since PHP 4.0.6.
You probably meant ‘PATH_SEPARATOR’, which was introduced with PHP 4.3.0-RC2, and is defined in PEAR.php if the PHP version in use is lower.
Anyway, str_replace(’_', ‘/’, $class) will work just fine on every platform.

cheers

By: Claus Jørgensen

Claus Jørgensen — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:19:08 +0000

Great idea, funny enough never though of this.

Btw. DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR is a PHP constant, not a PEAR constant.

By: Paul M. Jones

Paul M. Jones — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:14:48 +0000

Hi Demian — PATH_SEPARATOR and DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR are both available directly in recent 4.x branches (although earlier versions did not have both).

By: John Wyles

John Wyles — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:08:18 +0000

I think you both mean: “str_replace” )

By: demian

demian — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 07:35:30 +0000

as far as I remember, the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR constant is only available once you load PEAR.php, if you have this all the better.

cheers

Demian

By: bubblenut

bubblenut — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:04:37 +0000

Shouldn't that be


function __autoload($class)
{
  $filename = strreplace('_', DIRECTORY_SEPERATOR, $class) . '.php';
  @require_once $filename;
}