<?php
/**
 * Loads classes, search (recursively) in $path
 *
 * @todo speedup this function with precached filelist
 *
 * @param string $class
 * @param string $path
 * @param bool $recursive
 */
function autoloader($class, $path, $recursive = true) {
	$dir = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path);
	$dir_r = array();

	foreach($dir as $file) {
		if(!$file->isDir() && $file == Inflector::underscore($class))
			require_once($class);
		elseif($file->isDir() && $recursive && substr($file->getFilename(), 0, 1) != '.') // prevent loading folders like .svn
			$dir_r[] = $file;
	}

	if($recursive)
		foreach($dir_r as $dirs)
			autoloader($class, $dirs);
}

/**
 * autoload helper function
 *
 * @param string $class
 */
function core_autoloader($class) {
	$list = array(
		'Inflector'			=> LIB.'inflector.php',
		'AnotherClass'	=> LIB.'anotherClass.php'
		/* more here */
	);

	if(array_key_exists($class, $list))
		require_once($list[$class]);
	else
		autoloader($class, CORE);
}

/**
 * Initialize the spl_autoload functions
 * - first activate the autoload function, no magic __autoload() method =)
 * - speed up searching with dropping the .inc extension and set .php as main extension
 * - register our fast autoload function
 */
spl_autoload_register(null);
spl_autoload_extensions('.php');
spl_autoload_register('core_autoloader');

?>

Hope could help sb with this.

I don’t think this will make it in the core any time soon, because Cake 1.2 still supports PHP4 and this is a PHP5 feature… But maybe the cake devs will make use of this feature in a later version of cake…