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Ilia Ross
Ilia Ross

Reputation: 13412

Is there 'this' linakge pointer in PHP

I was wondering, if it's possible not to repeat your self when using if statements in PHP. The following is the part of my spl_autoload_register function, e.g.:

if (is_file(Core::Config('plugins_path') . '/' . strtolower($required_class) . '.class.php'))
  {
      require_once (Core::Config('plugins_path') . '/' . strtolower($required_class) . '.class.php');
  }

Is there a way to write it familiar to:

if (is_file(Core::Config('plugins_path') . '/' . strtolower($required_class) . '.class.php'))
  {
      require_once ( this );
  }

in order not to duplicate exactly the same line of the code?

The example above is not working.. Is there a way really?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 52

Answers (2)

Ilia Ross
Ilia Ross

Reputation: 13412

Based on the idea offered by Pietu, I'd rather shorten it to:

$file = Core::Config('plugins_path') . '/' . strtolower( $required_class ) . '.class.php';
is_file( $file ) && require_once ( $file );

Upvotes: 0

PurkkaKoodari
PurkkaKoodari

Reputation: 6809

Not exactly as you described. But you can shrink the code with a variable.

$file = Core::Config('plugins_path') . '/' . strtolower($required_class) . '.class.php';
if (is_file($file))
  {
      require_once ( $file );
  }

Upvotes: 2

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