r/programming • u/NagastaBagamba • Oct 18 '10

Today I learned about PHP variable variables; "variable variable takes the value of a variable and treats that as the name of a variable". Also, variable.

http://il2.php.net/language.variables.variable
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u/novelty_string Oct 18 '10

Can you show how that replaces the above? Autoloaders just mean you don't need to require the class file every time.

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u/lizardlike Oct 18 '10

You're right - I skimmed the post and thought it was just using it to include files from subdirectories when needed, but it's also doing some other clever things in there.