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+<?php
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ *
+ * @package thrift
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * 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, rename your
+ * __autoload function to something else and then do:
+ * $GLOBALS['AUTOLOAD_HOOKS'][] = 'my_autoload_func';
+ *
+ * Generate this code using the --gen php:autoload Thrift generator flag.
+ */
+
+$GLOBALS['THRIFT_AUTOLOAD'] = array();
+$GLOBALS['AUTOLOAD_HOOKS'] = array();
+
+if (!function_exists('__autoload')) {
+  function __autoload($class) {
+    global $THRIFT_AUTOLOAD;
+    $classl = strtolower($class);
+    if (isset($THRIFT_AUTOLOAD[$classl])) {
+      include_once $GLOBALS['THRIFT_ROOT'].'/packages/'.$THRIFT_AUTOLOAD[$classl];
+    } else if (!empty($GLOBALS['AUTOLOAD_HOOKS'])) {
+      foreach ($GLOBALS['AUTOLOAD_HOOKS'] as $hook) {
+        $hook($class);
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}