I understand that you can use either a PSR standard to locate files, or tell composer a directory to scan for classes. The documentation recommends using the PSR-4 standard. There is also an option...

How can I autoload helper functions (outside of any class)? Can I specify in composer.json some kind of bootstrap file that should be loaded first?

Recently I've read about namespaces and how they are beneficial. I'm currently creating a project in Laravel and trying to move from class map autoloading to namespacing. However, I can't seem to g...

I've set up two projects, an 'init' and a library, which is required by the init. They both have PSR-0 autoloads set, but the autoload values from the library are not added to the vendor/composer/a...

I have a tiny application that i need an autoloader for. I could easily use the symfony2 class loader but it seems like overkill. Is there a stable extremely lightweight psr-0 autloader out there?...

I'm currently trying to use PSR-0 autoloading with Composer, but I'm getting the following error: Fatal error: Class 'Twitter\Twitter' not found My directory structure looks like this - Project...

I need to use some PHP libraries with dependencies but I have some restrictions on the webserver of the client. It is a managed webserver and I can not use a console eg over SSH. So how do I use n...

I can't seem to get composer to work with my own classes/files using the psr-0 autoload mechanism. Can anyone please shed some light as to why the below isn't working? I'm getting the following ou...

I have create a custom composer package but I am having troubles to set the correct autoload options for it. All my classes are under MyNamespace/Common namespace. So for example for including my ...

The PSR-0 (https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md) standard specifies that an underscore in the class name should be converted to a directory separator in the corres...

I'm building a framework (this is a vast simplification -- please don't recommend using an existing framework instead, that's not helpful) into which I would like to be able to integrate othe...