Replicating class functions

[aktar]

Hi guys,

I would like to create a class that "assimilates" functions from other classes and uses these function as if were defined within itself.

The objective of this little excersise is that I would be able to "extend" multiple classes and would be able to call functions from a single object.

Anyone have any ideas?

[Dormilich]

sounds to me like a Facade Pattern, although from my understanding, you need the logic of which method/class to choose anyway (in that aggregator class or in the script), so I wouldn’t use such a class. and btw. if you don’t have a really good error handler, debugging might turn into a nightmare.

[aktar]

Funny you should mention debugging, because the idea was to introduce a facade pattern for better debugging from the built-in debugger.
The current workaround I have is a bit messy and doesnt do this debugger too many favours.

I've done some research and it seems the only clean way of doing this is to do a chain extend (a extends b, c extends b etc).
But this approach seems very ineffictive as I would also like to reduce processing overheads by loading only the required functions at runtime.

[Dormilich]

do you do autoloading?