Autoload() functionality

Author: avbdr

dbObject.php

@@ -39,6 +39,12 @@ class dbObject {
      * @var MysqliDb
      */
     private $db;
+    /**
+     * Models path
+     *
+     * @var modelPath
+     */
+    private static $modelPath;
     /**
      * An array that holds object data
      *
@@ -548,5 +554,25 @@ private function prepareData () {
         }
         return $sqlData;
     }
+
+    private static function dbObjectAutoload ($classname) {
+        $filename = "models/". $classname .".php";
+        include ($filename);
+    }
+
+    /*
+     * Enable models autoload from a specified path
+     *
+     * Calling autoload() without path will set path to dbObjectPath/models/ directory
+     *
+     * @param string $path 
+     */
+    public static function autoload ($path = null) {
+        if ($path)
+            static::$modelPath = $path . "/";
+        else
+            static::$modelPath = __DIR__ . "/models/";
+        spl_autoload_register ("dbObject::dbObjectAutoload");
+    }
 }
 ?>

tests/dbObjectTests.php

@@ -3,12 +3,9 @@
 require_once ("../MysqliDb.php");
 require_once ("../dbObject.php");
 
-function __autoload ($classname) {
-    $filename = "models/". $classname .".php";
-    include_once ($filename);
-}
-
 $db = new Mysqlidb('localhost', 'root', '', 'testdb');
+dbObject::autoload ("models");
+
 $tables = Array (
     'users' => Array (
         'login' => 'char(10) not null',