Plugin / Module Functionality

[craig.s...@gmail.com]

I would like to have some sort of module/plugin functionality where
other developers could create their own classes or pages and drop them
into a specific directory that is defined within my code and that code
be almost immediately available within the main code. Unfortunately, I
don't know where to start.

If anyone has any insight on this and could point me in the right
direction, that would be great.

Thanks.

[William Estrada]

If you are looking into plugin architecture, PHP|Architect had a great little 8 page article on how to go about it (http://www.phparch.com/issue.php?mid=79). haven't read it entirely yet.

for automatically loading classes not yet included, sounds like what you are actually asking, php 5 has the __autoload  function (http://us3.php.net/autoload). if you are using php 4, once viewing the link, if you scroll down to the contributors/comment portion, you can find examples of doing something similar in 4.

hope this helps.

[craig.s...@gmail.com]

That PHP|Architect issue is a great start.

Thanks!

On Oct 5, 12:22 pm, "William Estrada" <losthitchhi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are looking into plugin architecture, PHP|Architect had a great
> little 8 page article on how to go about it (http://www.phparch.com/issue.php?mid=79). haven't read it entirely yet.
>
> for automatically loading classes not yet included, sounds like what you are
> actually asking, php 5 has the __autoload function (http://us3.php.net/autoload). if you are using php 4, once viewing the link,
> if you scroll down to the contributors/comment portion, you can find
> examples of doing something similar in 4.
>
> hope this helps.
>

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