Efficient PHP auto-loading and naming strategies

Question

Like most web developers these days, I\'m thoroughly enjoying the benefits of solid MVC architecture for web apps and sites. When doing MVC with PHP, autoloading obviously

Answer 1

I landed on this solution:

I created a single script that traverses my class library folder (which contains subfolders for separate modules / systems), and parses the file contents looking for class definitions. If it finds a class definition in a php file (pretty simple regex pattern), it creates a symlink:

class_name.php -> actual/source/file.php

This lets me use a single, simple autoload function that needs only the class name and the path to the main symlink folder, and doesn't have to do any path/string manipulation.

The best part is that I can rearrange my source code completely or add a new subsystem and just run the link generating script to have everything autoloaded.