Composer Autoloading

Question

I'm currently trying to use PSR-0 autoloading with Composer, but I'm getting the following error:

Fatal error: Class 'Twitter\Twitter' not found

My directory structure looks like this

- Project
    - src
        - Twitter
            Twitter.php
    - vendor
    - Test
    index.php

My index.php file looks like this:

<?php

    use Twitter;
    $twitter = new Twitter();

My Twitter.php file looks like this

<?php 

namespace Twitter;

class Twitter
{
    public function __construct()
    {
        // Code Here
    }
}

And finally my composer.json looks like this:

{
"require": {
    "phpunit/phpunit": "3.8.*@dev",
    "guzzle/guzzle": "3.7.*@dev"
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"autoload": {
    "psr-0": {
        "Twitter" : "src/Twitter"
    }
}
}

I am getting a little confused. I come from a C# background and this way of working is kinda confusing me. What's the correct way to use PSR-0 autoloading?

Solution 1

In your composer.json use:

"autoload": {
    "psr-0": {
        "": "src/"
    }
}

or

"autoload": {
    "psr-0": {
        "Twitter\\": "src/"
    }
}

and then run php composer.phar dump-autoload

Solution 2

Use

"psr-0": {
     "Twitter" : "src/"
 }

This instructs composer to create autoloader, that will look in src for everything from Twitter namespace. And since it is PSR-0, namespace is treated as a folder and added to declared path, so you should not include it in path part in composer.json

Solution 3

First of all,

My index.php file looks like this:

use Twitter;
$twitter = new Twitter();

If it's your index.php you forgot to include the composer's autoload script first.

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

See https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#autoloading for details.

Solution 4

There is an error in your index.php, should be: use Twitter\Twitter; $twitter = new Twitter(); or $twitter = new Twitter\Twitter();

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Comments

[James Jeffery]

"so you should not include it composer.json" what do you mean by this?

[dev-null-dweller]

Missed few words, you should not include it in path part

[James Jeffery]

I'm still getting the same error. Is there any information online that explains how to do this? Are the rest of my files set up correctly?

[James Jeffery]

I forgot to add ... require 'vendor/autoload.php';

[dev-null-dweller]

As for documentation, sure there is - getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#autoload