How can I check if PHP Composer autoload is working?
Get the solution ↓↓↓I am trying to transfer a small web application, which uses PHP Composer, from an old out of date server to a new server.
On the new server, I have runcomposer install
to install the dependencies from thecomposer.lock
file.
The web application requires a config file to set itself up (not that it does a lot of setting up), which includes the line
require_once __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';
…which should locate the autoloader relative to the config file, and make the packages installed by Composer known to the system.
However, this doesn't seem to be working properly, as when the web app tries to use SwiftMailer (which was installed via Composer), it says:
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined method Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance()
…in the file that calls it, which obviously suggests that it does not know about it and cannot find it.
Is there a way that I can meaningfully check what the result of the autoloader include is and see what it is (or is not) doing?
Answer
Solution:
Make sure to add a use statement to your classes. You can arrange your classes and give your classes namespaces then allow composer to also auto-load your classes. You can tell composer how your classes are arranged according to namespaces as follows: In the autoload section of your composer.json file edit it to know how the namespaces of your classes is arranged
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"App\\": "src/",
"Mynamespace\\": "lib/src/ProjectSrc/"
}
},
The autoload section now tells composer the Classes in the ProjectSrc folder will have a root namespace of Mynamespace. From this information composer can determine all other sub namespaces in your directory tree. This will not happen automatically composer has to rebuild its mapping of classes with thecomposer dump-autoload
command.
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