I was hoping that if I were to define constants in a separate namespace, like:

namespace config\database\mysql;

const HOST = 'localhost';
const USER = 'testusr';
const PASSWORD = 'testpwd';
const NAME = 'testdb';

That I would be able to use __autoload to automatically include them:

function __autoload($className)
{
    echo "Autoload: {$className}\n";
    $class_file = str_replace('\\', '/', $className) . ".php";
    if(file_exists($class_file)) {
        include $class_file;
    }
}

echo config\database\mysql\HOST;

This, however, does not work. The __autoload is not called for the constant as it is with classes, leaving me with a Undefined constant error.

Some way that I can simulate the class __autoload for constants?

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