If your namespaces match your directory structure you would not need to fetch the class name. You could just append it to the base path and append the .php file extension.
I would argue the class. file prefix is unnecessary. I think of such prefixes from a time when namespaces was not available. If you are concerned with the ease of locating correct files I can recommend the following method. I have used for several projects and are quite happy with it.
classes/
interfaces/
interfaceName.php
abstracts/
traits/
class.php
anotherclass.php
I hope you get the idea. If you follow this you can use this.
spl_autoload_register(function($class) {
$filename = __DIR__ . '\\' . $class . '.php';
if(!file_exists($filename)) {
return false; // End autoloader function and skip to the next if available.
}
include $filename;
return true; // End autoloader successfully.
});
This is pretty much it. You should of course check that __DIR__ equals your base path. If you store your base path inside a variable and you are using a closure as callback, you can inject the path into the closure using this:
$path = 'This is your base path.';
spl_autoload_register(function($class) use ($path) {...});
If your file system uses forward-slashes (for some reason), you could wrap the $class variable in a str_replace() function call.
$class = str_replace('\\', '/', $class);
Happy coding!
