complexity in using the function "class_exists"

[ahaneesh]

hi guys

I guess yo know all , about the function class_exists which is used to check whether a class is available before creating an instance of it. What i like to know is.. how complex this function is? will it be a good practice using this in some special cases?? Does it affect the performance? as i have other way to do it wihtout using this function. But the code wil be looking good if i use this function. Please tell me your valuable suggessions on this topic

Thanks & regards
AH Aneesh
www.aneesh.net

[Weedpacket]

Well if you think the first example given on the [man]class_exists[/man] page is complex to use, then yes, it's complex to use.

Does it affect performance? Not as much as having the code not work at all because you got into a mess of ugly code that is too complicated for you to understand well enough to debug it.

[ahaneesh]

so you you suggest me to dont use thst function if it is not that much neccessary ?

[Kudose]

I cannot speak for Weedpacket, but personally: I would use it if I intended on creating more than one instance of the same class, if I knew this class was vital to the use of the code, if I planned on coming back to this code years later, if I was using someone else's donated code, or even just for fun.

Also, I highly doubt that was the point [what you said] Weedpacket was trying to convey.