It’s great to see that PHP is gaining maturity lately. After the release of version 5.3 that have introduced namespaces, it’s now time for some of the biggest php projects to get together to discuss and agree on a common autoloader standard. This really nice project would allow interoperability between frameworks/projects.

Take a look at the proposal PSR-0 and try the autoloader on your new project. The more people using it, the easier our life will be as a PHP developer.

Note: if you want to give feedback to the group about the proposed standard, you’d better do it on twitter or on your blog, because there seem to be some not so clearly defined rules to be able to join the group… update 2009-11-11: thanks to Nate Abel there is now a public Project Acceptance Guidelines posted so this comment doesn’t hold true anymore. Thanks Nate.

Note 2:: if you’re wondering how nice your code could look by using namespaces in php, check out the lithium framework (#li3) for a good example.