Here’s an autoloader class I came up with for one of my framework-free PHP projects. Autoloading is a way to let PHP know how you’ve architected your class file locations hierarchy by supplying it with a function to run. This function will handle the including of the class file. This is awesome because we don’t need to hard code every file inclu…

autoloader.php

<?php
class Autoloader {
    static public function loader($className) {
        $filename = "Classes/" . str_replace("\\", '/', $className) . ".php";
        if (file_exists($filename)) {
            include($filename);
            if (class_exists($className)) {
                return TRUE;
            }
        }
        return FALSE;
    }
}
spl_autoload_register('Autoloader::loader');
?>

configfile.php

require_once("Classes/Autoloader.php");