spl_autoload functions

[fantomel]

hello guys i got a small questions.. does anyone have an idea how can i handle the errors for spl_autoload function? i don't have any idea how should i build the code for that.. to output an error when the files doesn't exist / class... can someone point me to an article about that without eval() ? or does anyone have an example ?

[salathe]

You can use exception handling to report the error. For example (to be used as a guideline, not a fully working and useful script):

 

try 
{
// Try to load class Example
spl_autoload('Example');

// Do something with Example
// ...
}
catch (LogicException $e) 
{
// The class could not be loaded, exit with an error message
die("Error: " . $e->getMessage());
}

[fantomel]

and if i would like to throw an error with file not found without triggering an error "class not found" how could i do ?

[salathe]

You can do whatever you like after catching the exception thrown from spl_autoload. Dieing  with the exception message, as in my code above, was just an example -- you're free to do whatever you like at that point.