Better class autoloading

[MrSnoozles]

Hey everyone,

this week I found the time to write some modules and came up with something that I think could be greatly improved in ProcessWire. In my opinion when developing PHP applications today there should barely be the need to manually require files that contain classes anymore. Instead this should be handled by an autoloading function and probably by more strictly following a fixed PSR naming guideline.

In ProcessWire as developers we unfortunately still have to manually require files which, besides from feeling somewhat dirty, has two major drawbacks:
1) files get loaded even when not needed to process the current request
2) file includes are all over the place and also have to be considered when refactoring

 

 

[LostKobrakai]

There‘s the $classLoader class in the core if you need to setup autoloading.