adding workaround for php bug 49143 in the autoloader

diff --git a/includes/AutoLoader.php b/includes/AutoLoader.php
index abc90e3..6cac368 100644 (file)
--- a/includes/AutoLoader.php
+++ b/includes/AutoLoader.php
@@ -1027,6 +1027,14 @@ class AutoLoader {
        static function autoload( $className ) {
                global $wgAutoloadClasses, $wgAutoloadLocalClasses;
 
+               # Workaround for PHP bug <https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=49143> (5.3.2. is broken, it's fixed in 5.3.6).
+               # Strip leading backslashes from class names. When namespaces are used, leading backslashes are used to indicate
+               # the top-level namespace, e.g. \foo\Bar. When used like this in the code, the leading backslash isn't passed to
+               # the auto-loader ($className would be 'foo\Bar'). However, if a class is accessed using a string instead of a
+               # class literal (e.g. $class = '\foo\Bar'; new $class()), then some versions of PHP do not strip the leading
+               # backlash in this case, causing autoloading to fail.
+               $className = preg_replace( '/^\\\\/', '', $className );
+
                if ( isset( $wgAutoloadLocalClasses[$className] ) ) {
                        $filename = $wgAutoloadLocalClasses[$className];
                } elseif ( isset( $wgAutoloadClasses[$className] ) ) {