Posted by Todd Nine on 10/23/05 01:56

Hi all.
I have need to dynamically load some classes. I have created an
abstract class that defines a function. Note that I'm using PHP 4 so
abstract is not enforced. 3rd party plugins will then implement this
interface. Users will upload their plugins via a web interface. After
I save the php class file to the directory ./plugins, I will need to
load it later. Basically I need to do something like.


$dir = dir("plugins");

while($entry=$dir->read() ) {

//skip non class php files.
if(!eregi(".+\.class\.php$", $entry )) {
continue;
}//end if

//dynamically load class and call it

//require class
require_once("plugins/".$entry);


//get the class name from the entry

$classname = ??? ?;

$plugin = new $classname();

//result array
$results = $plugin->getObjects();

//do other stuff

}//end while

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