I tried to autoload a file with PSR-0 ,but it is not auto loading that file. I tried the same file with PSR-4 auto loading. With PSR-4 it worked perfectly. Is there any difference in folder structure needed for PSR-0?
I couldn't make PSR-0 working even if keep the folder structure mentioned in What is the difference between PSR-0 and PSR-4?
Here is my folder structure.
Test
--Package
--Test.php
I have in Test.php:
<?php
namespace Test\Package;
class Test
{
public function __construct()
{
echo "In Test class";
}
}
and composer.json looks like
{
"autoload": {
"psr-0": {
"Test\\Package\\": "Test/Package/"
}
}
}
Counter-intuitively, the composer documentation on PSR-0 includes a partial path making it seem that PSR-0 requires a path to the package in order to load classes. In reality, PSR-0 constructs the path based on the package, so it only needs a path specified if the code lives inside a folder like src/ or lib/ that is not part of the namespace path. If the namespace based directory structure starts in the same directory as composer.json, then no path is required.
Assuming a directory structure as specified in the question, there's several ways to load this class using composer.
{
"autoload": {
"psr-0": { "Test\\Package\\": "" }
}
}
Note that even though the code lives in Test/Package/, this folder is not specified in PSR-0.
For PSR-4 autoloading, the path to the package source must appear in the composer.json file.
{
"autoload": {
"psr-4": { "Test\\Package\\": "Test/Package/" }
}
}
When the requirement exists to load classes which aren't organized into the typical namespace folder tree, it is also possible to simply specify a list of folders in which to search for classes using the classmap array.
{
"autoload": {
"classmap": [ "Test/Package/" ]
}
}
In general, however, using PSR-0 or PSR-4 will provide an easier experience, as the classmap approach requires every folder to be separately specified.