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7 years ago
Even when autoloading (SPL) is used, class inheritance does not seem to work. Simply the PHP engine is unable to find parent (inherited) class. PHP 5.6 and 7.0 behave exactly same on this, which beats the purpose of autoloading.

And IMHO it's easy to fix as the autoloader is able to find all first level classes w/o problems, it just needs to follow same path recursively on parents too.

<?php
//Using default SPL autoloader, with namespaces mapping 1:1 to directory structure, with file names being all lowercase. 
//This works with first level classes only, for inheritance it does NOT work, it cannot find parent classes.
spl_autoload_register();

//This is ugly but working code if you want to be able to autoload parent classes too.
spl_autoload_register(function ($class){
    require_once __DIR__ . '/' . strtolower(str_replace('\\', '/', $class) . '.php');
});
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