I am using php in combination with ant to create a small automated build process. Will php run sequentially? What I mean is I have a series of modules or tasks: Example:
//check out files include("modules/checkout.php")
//zip up the files include ("modules/zip.php")
etc
Will php wait to execute the zip.php until the checkout.php has completed because in my priliminary tests, it doesn't appear to do this. If not, what's the best way to execute it?
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.include.php
Without objects, PHP runs through each file sequentially. So if checkout.php is a sequential file it will execute those lines of code before trying to include the zip.php file, etc. If your modules use classes (which I assume they do) then you can explicitly control program flow in the main file, e.g.
mainfile.php: // Load the class libraries include 'modules/checkout.php'; include 'modules/zip.php';
// Now we have classes Checkout and Zip available to mainfile $checkout = new Checkout(); $zip = new Zip();
$checkout->firstMethod(); $zip->secondMethod(); $zip->fourthMethod($checkout->thirdMethod());
If you are using classes, then creating the objects in the main file and calling the methods there as well make it easy to understand later.
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