Question

i am making my own class autoloader and and am building an array from the results.

one of my array i would like it to look like

$classes['myTestClass'] = ./classes/myTestClass.class.php

I can build this array but what i cannot do is set the actual class name of the class being loaded as the key to the path.

this is my foreach loop that builds my array

foreach ($classIterator as $file) {

    if ($this->_searchFilter($file))
        $this->classes[] = $file->getPathname();
}

$file->getPathname() has the absolute path of the class file that will be required, how can i get the class name from that file?

Answer 1

If you are using naming convention so /classes/myTestClass.class.php declares myTestClass, then simple str_replace should be sufficient:

foreach ($classIterator as $file) {

    if ($this->_searchFilter($file))
        $classPath = $file->getPathname();
        $className = str_replace('.class.php', '', basename($classPath));
        $this->classes[$className] = $classPath;
}