Using Composer's Autoload

Question

I have been looking around the net with no luck on this issue. I am using composer\'s autoload with this code in my composer.json:

\"autoload\":         


        

Answer 1

The composer documentation states that:

After adding the autoload field, you have to re-run install to re-generate the vendor/autoload.php file.

Assuming your "src" dir resides at the same level as "vendor" dir:

• src
  • AppName
• vendor
• composer.json

the following config is absolutely correct:

{
    "autoload": {
        "psr-0": {"AppName": "src/"}
    }
}

but you must re-update/install dependencies to make it work for you, i.e. run:

php composer.phar update

This command will get the latest versions of the dependencies and update the file "vendor/composer/autoload_namespaces.php" to match your configuration.

Also as noted by @Dom, you can use composer dump-autoload to update the autoloader without having to go through an update.