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Question

Is it faster search file in a tree of directory or search a file path in a single associate key - value file for load a class? example first case:

dir
   file1
   file2
   dir2
       file3
       dir3
           file4
   dircommon
       file5

example second case: single file ( test.config.txt ) with associate key - value:

file1=/dir/
file2=/dir/
file3=/dir/dir2/
file4=/dir/dir2/dir3 

I search file4 and then load class defined into file4

What is more faster method?

There is a faster and perfomance method to manage depencencies of php files?

Answer 1

The first method is easier because you don't have to update your index file for every new model/controller you add, and I don't think the performance difference is going to be that big unless you're loading thousands of classes on every page load, in which case you should just switch to Java. :P

Our in-house framework just searches file paths based on the class name... i.e. Application_Model_Person would map to '<include dir>/Application/Model/Person.php'.