Re: [phpGroupWare-developers] datetime class and PHP 5.2

[Chris Weiss]

On 12/26/06, Dave Hall <address@hidden> wrote:
> Prefix by app:
> app/inc/class.blah.inc.php contains a class called "app_blah" which
> createObject will "auto prepend" the app_ to the class name before
> instantiating it.  I prefer this option as it will also prevent class
> name clashes within phpGW.

this sounds great, with a bit of class_exists()...
if (class_exists($app.'_'.$class))
{
 //new naming
}
else
{
 //old naming
}

assuming class_exists() doens't have any more overhead than isset().
And also maybe a class_exists() on the old too just to be sure we
don't try to instanciate a non-existant class.

and if you wanted backward compat  just to be sure, you could have the
old style as a file with a class that extends the new nameing style.
would work for everything but static classes.  These files could even
just be offered as code in the readme and mailing lists for those that
extend the base stuff and don't have time to update their private
code.