Avoid direct include or require in spl_autoload_register

[joanhey]

In https://github.com/dseguy/clearPHP/blob/master/rules/use-smart-autoload.md example:

function my_autoloader($class) {
include 'classes/' . $class . '.class.php';
}

For every include that fail, will generate a warning and increase your log. If you have 4 functions (methods,..) registered using include directly, will create 4 warnings for every request.

It is worse with require, that create a fatal error and stop the execution.

It 's a shame than spl_autoload_register don't work like include_path, that try every path and show the error if all fail.

[dseguy]

What is your suggestion here ? Add a 'file_exists' to the example, to avoid those errors ?

[joanhey]

File_exists it's the only solution that I know