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+<?php
+
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2006- Facebook
+ * Distributed under the Thrift Software License
+ *
+ * See accompanying file LICENSE or visit the Thrift site at:
+ * http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/
+ *
+ * @package thrift
+ * @author Mark Slee <mcslee@facebook.com>
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Include this file if you wish to use autoload with your PHP generated Thrift
+ * code. The generated code will *not* include any defined Thrift classes by
+ * default, except for the service interfaces. The generated code will populate
+ * values into $GLOBALS['THRIFT_AUTOLOAD'] which can be used by the autoload
+ * method below. If you have your own autoload system already in place, you
+ * should merge the following functionality into your autoload system.
+ *
+ * Generate this code using the -phpa Thrift generator flag.
+ */
+
+$GLOBALS['THRIFT_AUTOLOAD'] = array();
+
+if (!function_exists('__autoload')) {
+  function __autoload($class) {
+    global $THRIFT_AUTOLOAD;
+    if (isset($THRIFT_AUTOLOAD[$class])) {
+      include_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/lib/packages/'.$THRIFT_AUTOLOAD[$class];
+    }
+  }
+}