I've been using Evert Pot's VObject library with my FuelPHP project. I used composer to install it in my app. In this blog post: http://fuelphp.com/blogs/2013/01/fuelphp-and-composer it says to add the following code to the application bootstrap.php file:
// load the Composer autoloader require APPPATH.'vendor/autoload.php';
I've verified that the file is generated by composer. It looks like this:
I'm not familiar with the internal workings of composer, but it's not throwing any exceptions. However, when I try to load the package, I get an error that the package couldn't be found.
I determined a workaround is to create a bootstap.php file in the package directory, and point to an include file in the project that loads all of the files. Is this just a weird package-specific quirk or do I need to do some additional configuration for the composer autoloader to work?
I tried that, but there seems to be some sort of configuration issue. Just to make sure that it wasn't something specific with my application, I setup a test environment:
git clone --recursive git://github.com/fuel/fuel.git -b 1.6/master test
- set timezone and security filters in the config file
composer update
cd fuel/app
vi composer.json
- insert this text:
{
"require" : {
"sabre/vobject" : "2.0.*"
}
}
composer update
cd ../..
vi fuel/app/classes/welcome.php
- in the action_index() method, add "Package::load('Sabre/Vobject');
This results in the error message:
Fuel\Core\PackageNotFoundException [ Error ]: Package 'Sabre/Vobject' could not be found at 'PKGPATH/sabre/vobject/'
So I opened up fuel/app/config and set:
'package_paths' => array(
PKGPATH,
APPPATH,
),
But that resulted in the error:
Fuel\Core\PackageNotFoundException [ Error ]: Package 'Sabre/Vobject' could not be found at 'APPPATH/sabre/vobject/'
So I added the vendor folder:
'package_paths' => array(
PKGPATH,
APPPATH.'vendor'.DS,
),
This results in the error:
Fuel\Core\PhpErrorException [ Warning ]: include(/Library/WebServer/Documents/test/fuel/app/vendor/sabre/vobject/bootstrap.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory
This is true. There is no bootstrap.php file in that directory. I can create one manually, but I thought this was all supposed to be handled by composer. Am I doing something wrong?
Update: if I create an empty bootstrap.php file in the package directory and include the "require APPPATH.'vendor/autoload.php'" code in the main application bootstrap.php file, everything works. Is the bootstrap.php file a requirement of FuelPHP that is not a requirement of composer?
Ah, you're making wrong assumptions. Composer packages !== FuelPHP Packages.
A composer package (I prefer the name library) is just a directory structure, containing classes in a folder, and composer provides an autoloader to be able to load those classes.
This is a generic mechanism, and has nothing to do with FuelPHP specific.
So if you have a composer library called "Sabre/Vobject", classes probably live in the \ Sabre\Vobject namespace, and you access them as such.
If you want to do Fuel specific stuff, you need to create facade's for these classes in the library, which can interface the Fuel environment with the library. For those facade classes you can use a package. Look at Upload, which works this way.
Ahh...I see now. The composer autoloader takes care of loading the composer packages or "libraries." I don't have to explicitly call \Package::load() as I would with a FuelPHP package. The composer packages are always available.
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