Question

Is it possible in php to load a function, say from a external file to include in a class. I’m trying to create a loader for helper functions so that I could call:

$registry->helper->load('external_helper_function_file'); 

after that it should be able call the function in file like this:

$registry->helper->function(); 

Thanks for any help

Answer 1

Setting aside opinions it it’s good OOP design. It’s possible even with current version of PHP, although not as clean, as it can be with PHP5.3.

class Helper {     /* ... */     function load($file) {       include_once($file);     }     function __call($functionName, $args) {        if(function_exists($functionName))            return call_user_func_array($functionName, $args);     }  }