Build a Drupal style hook system using PHP reflection

The Movico module is a scaffold for building Drupal modules in OOP and MVC. One requirement of the project is a hooking system, similar to Drupals, that uses OOP. The following is how I plan to build such a system using the PHP 5 reflection API.

This code shows how using Reflection makes it easy to create a system that hooks into several Class methods to build a linked menu. This moves two systems that are heavy resource users and overly cached from Drupal and places them into the Movico domain.

To try this out you can download and install the Movico module, place this code in ...movico/_controllers/hooks.class.inc. Then surf to ?q=app/hooks/get_hooks. If you get a access denied page then add this to the mvc.module

Update: Moving to hiveminds.Wordpress.com to get syntaxhighlighting and Linkedin connectivity

function mvc_access($uri){

    $authorize = array(
        'hello' => array('access foo'),
        'hello_log' => array('access baz'),
        'hello_log_view' => array('access foo','access baz'),
        'get_hooks' => array('access foo','access baz'),
    );

...movico/_controllers/hooks.class.inc
======================================

/**
 * Normally the Classes would be in individual files and loaded via an iterator
 *
 *
 * @author Carl McDade
 * @since 2010-02-18
 */
class ConClass1 {

    function hook_output()
    {
        $var[1] = 'link text(1)';
        $var[11] = 'link text(11)';

        return $var;
    }
}

class ConClass2 {

    function hook_output()
    {
        $var[2] = 'link text(2)';

        return $var;
    }
}

class ConClass3 {

    function hook_output()
    {
        $var[3] = 'link text(3)';
        $var[4] = 'link text(4)';

        return $var;
    }
}

class hooks{

    public $hook = 'hook_output';
    public $arr = array();

    function _modules()
    {
        $vars = array('ConClass1','ConClass2','ConClass3');

        return $vars;
    }

    function get_hooks()
    {
        foreach ($this->_modules() as $module)
        {
            $Class = new ReflectionClass($module);
            $Method = new ReflectionMethod($Class->getName(), $this->hook);

            if ($Method->isStatic())
            {
                $output = $Method->invoke(NULL);
            }
            else{
                
                $instance = $Class->newInstance();
                $this->arr = array_merge($this->arr, $Method->invoke($instance));
            }
        }

        return mvc_view('default', $variables, implode('',$this->arr));
    }
}

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