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Reputation: 18756

Laravel include a library that uses autoload.php

I'm trying to use Faker library inside my home controller, but I don't know how to include it. The library's documentation uses this:

require_once '/path/to/Faker/src/autoload.php';
$faker = Faker\Factory::create();

But Laravel has a different way of loading classes, but I didn't find an example with such a library.

So how do I do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 4544

Answers (2)

Spir
Spir

Reputation: 1719

I guess you added it using composer? I use a lib that I have installer with composer (Imagine) and I wanted to use composer loading script so I did this in start.php:

// Composer package
require_once  $GLOBALS['laravel_paths']['base'] . 'vendor' . DS . 'autoload.php';

Upvotes: 1

William Cahill-Manley
William Cahill-Manley

Reputation: 2405

You should look at Registering a namespace, it should take care of what you need. Faker follows the PSR0 standard for namespaces, so you need need to tell laravel how to find those files. In your application/start.php file place these directives:

Autoloader::namespaces(array(
    'Faker' => path('libraries').'path/to/Faker/src/Faker',
));

Hope that helps!

Edit:

Furthermore I realized that if you move the src/Faker folder into application/libraries as application/libraries/Faker it should be loaded automatically.

Upvotes: 0

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