I'm working with laravel 5 and trying to integrate the following package: exacttarget/fuel-sdk-php
I executed on my project:
composer require exacttarget/fuel-sdk-php
So I had on my vendor dir exacttarget provider.
First thing I've noticed this particular package doesn't use namespaces, so it still calls require directives but not "use \path\namespace" Is it a right approach? I haven't seen many packages yet but among my past experience doesn't look to me the right approach to write a package...
After this I edit condif/app.php to use ET_Client class.
'providers' => [
...
'ET_Client',
...
],
Once I did this, I got an error: looks like Laravel frmwk tries to instantiate the class, that needs some parameters to work, even if I'm not yet using it (istantiating). It this a normal behavior from Laravel?
Am I missing something ?
The providers array is for registering service provider classes. Unless ET_Client extends Laravel’s base ServiceProvider class, it’s not going to work.
Instead, just add the use statements to your PHP classes as and when you need to use the class:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use ET_Client;
class SomeController extends Controller
{
public function someAction()
{
// Instantiate client class
$client = new ET_Client;
// Now do something with it...
}
}