Posted by Wayne on 10/04/75 11:35

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:10:33 +0000, Colin Fine
<news@kindness.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>PHP5 marked a step forward over PHP4, but Tony has changed my mind.
>The one place where it has improved things (that I can now say
>class MyClass
>...
>if get_class($var, 'MyClass') ...
>and have it work)
>is not enough to justify the change.

The reason for the change was for __AutoLoad(). Since most file
systems where PHP runs is case-sensitive you need to get the proper
case of the class to map it to a file name to load.

That's the reason for that change.

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