Autoload fails on install
| Project: | Autoload |
| Version: | 6.x-1.2 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | support request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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I am trying to use this for a module I'm developing. I was previously using my own autoloading method. Swapping in code using Autoload module instead of my method works great except when I do a fresh install of my module.
Upon installing my module, I get a "Fatal error: Class not found'. It seems as if the installer loads all the include files in my module's directory. It loads them in alphabetical order. This is a problem when, for example 'class_a.inc' is loaded before 'class_b.inc' and class_a extends class_b. PHP tries to use autoload_class() to load class_b, but is unable to do so. Apparently autoload_flush_caches() has not been called at this point.
I tried calling autoload_flush_caches() in my module's implementation of hook_install(), but that did not work.
Any suggestions?
#1
Unfortunately no. The installer doesn't call init hooks, I think, so the autoload isn't even registered yet. It also has not yet called your autoload hook implementation so it doesn't know about your classes anyway. Not sure what to do here. :-(
#2
A Drupal hook function is still a function that can be called from any functions, including any install, or update functions that a module could define.
The bigger problem, as I can see, it's the dependency between two classes, but I would expect the autoload function to be called for both the classes, which are not being found on any already loaded file.
#3
PHP's autoload capability will fire repeatedly as necessary if you have, say, multiple classes that inherit from each other. That is a non-issue.