Yeakum is a PHP framework that I created from scratch to show some of our employees how a MVC Framework works. Yeakum is open source and is up on the sourceforge repository.

First of all let me explain what an autoloader is. An autoloader is a function (__autoload()) that is call each time you try to use a class/interface($object = new class();) that has not already been included as a last ditch effort to include the class before an PHP fails with an error.

An absolute path is the full path to a site or file on a site. For instance, http://www.yoursite.com is an absolute path to your site.  A relative path is a path that is relative the the location of the file that is calling for the path.  Using relative paths is fine and all till you [...]