13 March 2006
A feature request
I do wish PHP had some kind of preprocessor, macro system or way of manually aliasing functions. Right now, I use require_once(nsclass("Library::User.DataAdapter"));. How I wish I could import "Library::User.DataAdapter";. And while I could do:
function import ($path) {
$strRoot = “/var/www/html/”;
require_once ($strRoot . str_replace (”::”, “/”, $path) . “.php”);
}
It’s just not quite right. The file is included at the wrong scope, for one. But even if I could just alias require_once to req, and then rename nsclass to import, everything would be much tidier.
I have not filed this as a request with PHP.net (as I couldn’t find the approriate avenue for submission. If you know or have influence, please, let me know or even take credit for it and do it yourself.