Including a directory

[jerry_louise]

Is it possible to include and entire directory, say i want to include

class (folder)
class1 (folder)
class1main.php
class1second.php
class2 (folder)
class2main.php

Or do i need to include every file one by one?

Using this works

foreach(glob('../application/classes/*/*.php') as $ClassFilename) {
     require_once($ClassFilename);
}

My question now is it is the right solution to my problem or is there a better way

[johanafm]

For this particular purpose: http://se2.php.net/autoload

[jerry_louise]

function autoLoader($className)
{
	//Directories added here must be relative to the script going to use this file. 
	$directories = array
	(
		'../application/classes/*/'
	);

//File naming formats
$fileNameFormats = array
(
	'%s.class.php'
);

// this is to take care of the PEAR style of naming classes
$path = str_ireplace('_', '/', $className);

if(@include_once $path.'.php')
{
	return;
}

foreach($directories as $directory)
{
	foreach($fileNameFormats as $fileNameFormat)
	{
		$path = $directory.sprintf($fileNameFormat, $className);
		if(file_exists($path))
		{
			include_once $path;
			return;
		}
	}
}
}
spl_autoload_register('autoLoader');

I seem to be missing the logic some where as i just can't get this to work, my error log is reporting it can't find the class in the directory i am pointing too.

[jerry_louise]

Note: Previous version of the script * opens up all the directories though this is rather a primitive way of doing it as it will just brute open every directory in the folder.

The directory is set up as

root
[INDENT]application[/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT]classes[/INDENT][/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]TestClass[/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]TestClass.php[/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
[INDENT]html[/INDENT]
[INDENT][INDENT]bootstrap.php (where the script is called)[/INDENT][/INDENT]

Old Function

foreach(glob('../application/classes/*/*.php') as $ClassFilename) {
     require_once($ClassFilename);
}

[johanafm]

This looks wrong

'../application/classes/*/'

* is not an automatic wildcard in php. Why not just put all your classfiles in ../application/classes? And if you need or want to put things in other places, just add more elements to your array.

    $directories = array
    (
        '../application/classes/', '../application/classes/testClass/'
    );

[johanafm]

Also, get rid of the error supression operator and you'll see the actual string it's trying to include.

[jerry_louise]

function __autoload($class_name) 
{
    require_once '../application/classes/'.$class_name.'/' . $class_name . '.class.php';
}

Went with a much simpler solution, this means each class is in its own folder that can further have a folder for subclasses and such as required.