How to use composer packages in codeigniter?

Question

I've followed this article: http://philsturgeon.co.uk/blog/2012/05/composer-with-codeigniter

But I get Fatal error: Class 'Buzz\Browser' not found.

What is missing from his post?

My controller or application isn't namespaced. I was hoping to just be able to use that one package in one controller's action in a non-namespaced framework.

Answer 1

Well in Codeigniter3.x you can easily do that by going into the application/config/config.php and look for this line

$config['composer_autoload'] = FALSE;

Make sure you set it to TRUE and right after it you require_once this:

require_once APPPATH.'vendor/autoload.php';

So you get something like this:

/*
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Composer auto-loading
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| Enabling this setting will tell CodeIgniter to look for a Composer
| package auto-loader script in application/vendor/autoload.php.
|
|   $config['composer_autoload'] = TRUE;
|
| Or if you have your vendor/ directory located somewhere else, you
| can opt to set a specific path as well:
|
|   $config['composer_autoload'] = '/path/to/vendor/autoload.php';
|
| Note: This will NOT disable or override the CodeIgniter-specific
|   autoloading (application/config/autoload.php)
*/
$config['composer_autoload'] = TRUE;
require_once APPPATH.'vendor/autoload.php';

Just make sure you have your vendor folder in the application folder and you are good to go.

I recently found out that you can just set $config['composer_autoload'] = TRUE; and put your vendor folder in the application folder and that's it.

Answer 2

There are two ways you can autoload the class file which is required using composer.

1. Add below line in index.php in the root directory.

   require FCPATH . 'vendor/autoload.php';
   

2. Or autoload directly in the controller where you want to use.
   

   defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');
   
   require FCPATH . 'vendor/autoload.php';
   
   class Home extends CI_Controller {...}
   

Answer 3

EDIT: Damn, I just said pretty much exactly the same thing as @Tjorriemorrie

If you've followed all the other directions correctly, all you need to do is add the following code near the very the end your index.php file:

/*
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 * COMPOSER AUTOLOAD
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
include_once './vendor/autoload.php';

...just make sure you slot it in before the CodeIgniter Bootstrap file is called:

/*
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 * LOAD THE BOOTSTRAP FILE
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * And away we go...
 *
 */
 require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter.php';

Answer 4

For CodeIgniter 3.x and composer, it's suggested to just set $config['composer_autoload'] to TRUE or a custom path in application/config/config.php.

It seems that CI assumes the vendor directory is within the application directory. That wasn't my case. I did the following:

$config['composer_autoload'] = 'vendor/autoload.php';

Answer 5

I'm using Kenjis codeigniter composer package, and it puts the vendor directory off of the root. Since there is no predefined constant (that I know of) for the root, I used the following:

$root = getcwd();
$config['composer_autoload'] = "$root/vendor/autoload.php";

Answer 6

Credit to @jmadsen

This is possible by just getting the order of loading correct:

/*
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 * LOAD THE BOOTSTRAP FILE
 * --------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * And away we go...
 *
 */
// Composer Autoloader
require FCPATH . 'vendor/autoload.php';

require_once BASEPATH.'core/CodeIgniter.php';

/* End of file index.php */