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D. Dante Lorenso  
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 More options Jul 20 2012, 9:39 am
From: "D. Dante Lorenso" <da...@lorenso.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:39:57 -0500
Local: Fri, Jul 20 2012 9:39 am
Subject: why do we need jimport?
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I see this in the Joomla code:

    jimport('joomla.filesystem.folder');
    JFolder :: create(dirname($file));

But with PHP, we can just autoload classes, so why dont we just have
something like this:

   Joomla_Filesystem_Folder :: create(dirname($file));

I don't understand why jimport exists.

-- Dante

D. Dante Lorenso


 
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Michael Babker  
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 More options Jul 20 2012, 9:59 am
From: Michael Babker <mbab...@flbab.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:59:11 -0500
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Subject: Re: [jgen] why do we need jimport?
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It's a leftover from when we couldn't auto load classes.  The Platform now has an auto loader and a lot of classes are loaded that way, but there are some classes that don't follow the auto load convention and still need to be manually imported, and that's where jimport still has some use.

-Michael

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Sam Moffatt  
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 More options Jul 20 2012, 9:59 am
From: Sam Moffatt <pasa...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 06:59:51 -0700
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Much of the Joomla Platform was written with support for PHP4 in mind.
Given that PHP5 introduced autoloading, many of the classes and
structures pre-date that functionality. jimport provided a Java
inspired solution for registering files to be loaded in a way that
meant that the system was reasonably flexible.

Increasingly we are shifting to using a camel case based autoloader
for new code however as with any project that has been around for half
a decade and two major PHP versions there is a lot of legacy that
needs to be slowly updated.

Cheers,

Sam Moffatt
http://pasamio.id.au

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