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Load a class "on-the-fly" with php

I have an existent class and I want to create a system to load "plugins" for it. Those "plugins" are created as files and then included in the file with the main class.

Now I think the main class needs to extend those little "plugins" with their own classes. The problem is that I don't know what plugins will include different users. So the extending of the classes is dynamically.

How can I extend on-the-fly a class, maybe without using eval (I didn't tested that either)?

Solution

  • Are you talking about __autoload?

    function __autoload($class) {
    require_once($class.'.php');
}
$object = new Something();

    This will try to require_once(Something.php);