About autoload.php

The file autoload.php.blank can be safely deleted.

To activate, rename file autoload.php.blank to autoload.php. It is executed here:

https://github.com/modxcms/evolution/blob/v1.2/autoload.php.blank
https://github.com/modxcms/evolution/blob/v1.2/index.php#L50

Examples

Custom PHP-settings at run-time

If setting via .htaccess is not possible, autoload.php can be used to change PHP-settings at run-time.

<?php
setlocale (LC_ALL, 'en_EN');
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

Logging purposes

For example if a site became compromised / hacked or for whatever reason, autoload.php can be easily used to log suspicious server-requests.

<?php
file_put_contents('your_secret_directory/log_server.txt', print_r($_SERVER,true),  FILE_APPEND);
file_put_contents('your_secret_directory/log_request.txt',print_r($_REQUEST,true), FILE_APPEND);
exit;