Canonic Autoloader: Update of "Canonic Autoloader"

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Overview

Artifact ID:	30317a4152bd4033cb1b38473ed68a83887d0688
Page Name:	Canonic Autoloader
Date:	2014-02-13 05:06:14
Original User:	mario
Mimetype:	text/x-markdown
Parent:	5beaecce6d6cce1c79c5cf26c0c2e88953efa3d2 (diff)
Next	3faa122ccd6036bc588f86830aaf5041ef62e1d9

Content

shared.phar is a streets ahead PHP autoloader.

Self-contained in a single compressed phar
- Can be updated easily by invoking it from the command line
  - The phar may also be split up
Based on a class map
- Interprets identifiers case-insensitively (as PHP does)
  - Prepares rfc:function_autoloading userland support
Phar collections become first class citizens
- Tokenizes plain *.php and phar://* includes for identifier declarations
  - Indifferent to PSR-0/4 constraints, works atop any legacy or custom directory scheme
Is meant for /usr/share/php handling
- But can be used project-locally just as well
  - And for deployment is just copied along with the class structure.

And it's public domain.

It can be utilized easily with:

 include_once("shared.phar");

And updated manually on the command line:

 php ./shared.phar

Or implicitly on development setups by declaring an AUTOLOADER_UPDATE environment variable.