PHP Automatically Include Classes

Pulling In Content

Php has a nice small feature that allows us to automatically load classes that we use in our web application. This will check the designated location’s files and pull in any classes that we reference inside of the application.

function __autoload($class) {
    include $class . '.php';
}
 
$car = new carObject();
$house = new houseObject();
$boat = new boatObject();

Pull Classes From A Path

It is nice to keep all application classes in the same directory. Here is a quick fix to the above code to import everything from the classes folder on the server.

function __autoload($class) {
    include '/class/'.$class . '.php';
}
 
$car = new carObject();
$house = new houseObject();
$boat = new boatObject();

This is a small quick fix that works because the include function works with a simple string.