From 7137ccc0fdbf158b97872772dd6a989f32f50365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Etienne Kneuss <colder@php.net>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:22:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Mention that __autoload is somehow outdated

git-svn-id: https://svn.php.net/repository/phpdoc/en/trunk@315838 c90b9560-bf6c-de11-be94-00142212c4b1
---
 language/oop5/autoload.xml | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/language/oop5/autoload.xml b/language/oop5/autoload.xml
index 2efb956355..be5e3bbda2 100644
--- a/language/oop5/autoload.xml
+++ b/language/oop5/autoload.xml
@@ -15,6 +15,14 @@
    defined yet. By calling this function the scripting engine is given
    a last chance to load the class before PHP fails with an error.
   </para>
+  <tip>
+   <para>
+    <function>spl_autoload_register</function> provides a more flexible
+    alternative for autoloading classes. For this reason, using
+    <function>__autoload</function> is discouraged and may be deprecated or
+    removed in the future.
+   </para>
+  </tip>
   <note>
    <para>
     Prior to 5.3.0, exceptions thrown in the __autoload function could not be