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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:23:00 +0400
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To: Ben Bidner <ben@vuetec.com>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] autoloading and undefined class constants
From: indeyets@gmail.com (Alexey Zakhlestin)

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 6:49 AM, Ben Bidner<ben@vuetec.com> wrote:

> <?php
>
> =C2=A0 function autoloader($className)
> =C2=A0 {
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0throw new Exception("Fail");
> =C2=A0 }
>
> =C2=A0 spl_autoload_register("autoloader");

The whole point of spl_autoload_register() is to allow programmers to
have several independent autoloaders. So, it is a bad practice to
throw exception from autoload =E2=80=94 doing so, you forbid system to try =
the
next autoloader.

Good practice is: if you can't load class from autoloader =E2=80=94 just
silently return from it

--=20
Alexey Zakhlestin
http://www.milkfarmsoft.com/