if you can live with write access to properties, this is a very nice/lazy factory.

The point is that an instance variable isn’t set, __get() catches the first access to it, some lazy-load occurs, and then the instance variable is set for future accesses.

Elias: You need to read the example again. The access to “obj” goes to __get() only once. When that happens, $instance->obj is then set and __get() never gets hit again, so there’s no overhead. This is how the idea is somewhat analogous to __autoload().

Mike

//not tested
class FrameworkClassFactory {

function &load ($className) {
include (ROOT.’/libs/’.$className.’.php’);
$instance = new $className ();
return $instance;
}
}

This sadly doesn’t deal with parameters, you have to use eval () or some kind of acceptable trick (let’s say we surely know we won’t ever need more than 10 parameters).
(warning it won’t handle references parameters)

class FrameworkClassFactory {

function &load () {
include (ROOT.’/libs/’.$className.’.php’);
$p=func_get_args();
$className=array_shift($p);

for ($i=0; $i

Regarding the container, that’s true but then the usage becomes much uglier. __get() then moves into the container, and the usage becomes $instance->container->obj->test(). That’s not very convenient.