Replacement for PHP's __autoload function?

Question

I have read about dynamically loading your class files when needed in a function like this:

function __autoload($className)
{
   include(\"classes/$className         


        

Answer 1

You can use spl_autoload_register(), adding any existing __autoload() magic to the stack.

function my_autoload( $class ) {    
    include( $class . '.al.php' );
}
spl_autoload_register('my_autoload');

if( function_exists('__autoload') ) {
    spl_autoload_register('__autoload');
}                                                                                         

$f = new Foo;