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Nemanja Jeremic
Nemanja Jeremic

Reputation: 344

Autoloader in PHP, without composer or any other libraries for non-class files

I have been searching around about autoloader and every solution I have been found was about the classes (SPL autoload), composer and so on.

So I was thinking, what about non-class files, where I have some functions, some procedural code, etc.

I know about this one method, but it's not a really good solution for me.

$RequiredFiles = array(
    '/functions/function1.php',
    '/functions/function2.php',
    '/procedural/code1.php',
    '/procedural/code2.php',
    ....
);
foreach ($RequiredFiles as $File) {
    $Path = __DIR__ . $File;
    require $Path;
}

My question is, how I can make an autoloader for non-class files?

I don't want to do something like this

foreach (glob('/functions/*.php') as $File) {
   if( $File !== '/functions/donotincludethis.php'){
     require $File;
   }
}

I want to have some better and secure way to do that, of course without composer.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1573

Answers (2)

Murry
Murry

Reputation: 1

Automatic loading is to solve the dependencies that the code needs to run. I think of a method, which is similar to a container. The name of the dependency of the code you need to solve depends on the key of the array. The value of this array is the PHP file to be imported. The require_once function is recommended.

Upvotes: -1

deceze
deceze

Reputation: 522005

Only classes and interfaces can be autoloaded. It doesn't make sense for "procedural code files" to be autoloaded; how would you even refer to them except with require 'file.php'? Functions could theoretically be autoloaded but practically PHP doesn't allow it, so for including function definitions you'll still need to use require_once 'my_funcs.php' at the top of your file.

Upvotes: 2

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