* Thus wrote Ed Lazor:
> I'm creating classes that rely on the presence of other classes that I've
> created.  Does PHP5 provide a way to specify these dependencies or a way to
> check these dependencies when the class is instantiated?  For example, class
> Automobile would fail to instantiate if class Tire wasn't available.
> 
> I know the __autoload feature of PHP5 could be used to flag an error like
> this:
> 
> function __autoload($class_name) {
>       if ([EMAIL PROTECTED]("$class_name.php")) {
>               echo "Error:  Unable to load $class_name.<br>";
>       }
> }

What you can do is something like this:


function __autoload($class_name) {
  static $_stack = array();

  // push the calls of autoload here
  array_push($_stack, $class_name);

        if ( [EMAIL PROTECTED]("$class_name.php") || 
       !class_exists($class_name, false) ) {

    var_dump($_stack);
    $_stack = array(); // reset it
    echo "Error:  Unable to load $class_name.<br>";

    return false;
  }

  // pop the stack
  array_pop($_stack);

  return true;

}

Curt
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