Including a whole directory in PHP or Wildcard for use in PHP Include?

Question

I have a command interpreter in php. It lives inside the commands directory and needs access to every command in the command file. Currently I call require once on each co

Answer 1

Why do you want to do that? Isn't it a better solution to only include the library when needing it to increase speed and reduce footprint?

Something like this:

Class Interpreter 
{
    public function __construct($command = null)
    {
        $file = 'Command'.$command.'.php';

        if (!file_exists($file)) {
             throw new Exception('Invalid command passed to constructor');
        }

        include_once $file;

        // do other code here.
    }
}