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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:05:25+00:00

The magic __autoload function works for classes only, right? How about other files like

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The magic __autoload function works for classes only, right? How about other files like templates? I’d love to see a solution where I don’t have to care at all about the big problem “where’s the file? what’s the path? when do I have to include it?”. Would be a big time saver.

Performance? Well… in this case I’d prefer faster development over performance, because…hey..lets face it, 99,99% of our websites we make are rarely visited anyways. And when the day comes where we get a million visitors, we’re probably a big, Inc. and pay 10 devs to improve it.

Well, at least for my framework.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Take a look set_include_path(). It allows you to set a list of a directories in which PHP will look when you try to include a file. So if you have all your templates in one dir, say templates/, you can just:

    set_include_path(get_include_path() . PATH_SEPARATOR . 'templates');
//...
include 'mytemplate.php';

    And PHP will find the right file. This still requires an include(), but it helps. Besides, being explicit about which files you include is a Good Thing.

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