From: daniel <daniel.kinzler@wikimedia.de>
Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:30:13 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: adding workaround for php bug 49143 in the autoloader
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~22097^2^2~155
X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/%24action?a=commitdiff_plain;h=edbde294704c2d3ef40bc73a02b0480f33608e22;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

adding workaround for php bug 49143 in the autoloader
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diff --git a/includes/AutoLoader.php b/includes/AutoLoader.php
index abc90e3a1d..6cac36897c 100644
--- a/includes/AutoLoader.php
+++ b/includes/AutoLoader.php
@@ -1027,6 +1027,14 @@ class AutoLoader {
 	static function autoload( $className ) {
 		global $wgAutoloadClasses, $wgAutoloadLocalClasses;
 
+		# Workaround for PHP bug <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49143> (5.3.2. is broken, it's fixed in 5.3.6).
+		# Strip leading backslashes from class names. When namespaces are used, leading backslashes are used to indicate
+		# the top-level namespace, e.g. \foo\Bar. When used like this in the code, the leading backslash isn't passed to
+		# the auto-loader ($className would be 'foo\Bar'). However, if a class is accessed using a string instead of a
+		# class literal (e.g. $class = '\foo\Bar'; new $class()), then some versions of PHP do not strip the leading
+		# backlash in this case, causing autoloading to fail.
+		$className = preg_replace( '/^\\\\/', '', $className );
+
 		if ( isset( $wgAutoloadLocalClasses[$className] ) ) {
 			$filename = $wgAutoloadLocalClasses[$className];
 		} elseif ( isset( $wgAutoloadClasses[$className] ) ) {