PHP 5.4 Namespace-based Autoloader

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<?php

// Probably unnecessary, but wanted to test the waters of 5.4

trait NamespaceConverter
{
    function nsToPath($class) {
        return str_replace('\\', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR, $class) . '.php';
    }
}

// Namespace-based paths (e.g. "new Foo\Component\Bar()" => "/Foo/Component/Bar.php")

class Autoloader
{
    use NamespaceConverter;
    
    public $basePath;
    
    public function __construct($basePath = '.') 
    {
        $this->basePath = realpath($basePath);
        spl_autoload_register([$this, 'load']);
    }
    
    public function load($class) 
    {
        $file = $this->basePath . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . $this->nsToPath($class);
        if (file_exists($file)) include $file;
    }
}

/*

Usage:

$loader1 = new Autoloader('path/to/some/core/classes');
$loader2 = new Autoloader('path/to/some/vendor/classes');

*/