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manuthalasseril
manuthalasseril

Reputation: 1064

Write a user defined class in laravel?

I have class in libraries/myclass.php and a function named myFunction. Also I try to call that function in my controller with the following code 

$myclasobj=new libraries\Myclass();
$returnvalue=$myclasobj->myFunction($para);

results that class not found. I dont want it as a helper class and auto load this class. I just want to use as a simple class.I am using laravel 4.How can I obtain this?

Update
Thanks all of you for your great help.
As per @carousel,@Ohgodwhy I make it by namespacing (Actually before I don't know about it).
I make a directory under libraries named mylib and move my class (myclass.php) to it and after that I add namespace mylib; to the top of myclass.php.
And after that I add use mylib\Myclass; to my controller. Finally I add these lines to composer.json

,
 "psr-0": {
        "mylib": "app/libraries"
    },

After these things my class is working.Thanks to all for helping me

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1714

Answers (3)

Evan Darwin
Evan Darwin

Reputation: 860

Assuming that the file hasn't been loaded yet, the proper way to add your libraries/ directory to the classloader would be to modify your composer.json to add the directory to the autoloader.

autoload: {
    classmap: [
        "...",
        "libraries/"
    ]
}

After that, you'll need to rebuild the autoloader, so in the home directory, go ahead and run this in your terminal:

$ php artisan dump-autoload -o

Also ensure that your class is actually contained inside a namespace, because using

new libraries\myClass();

Does not load "myClass" from the "libraries" folder. It would be helpful if you could add it to the original question.

Upvotes: 2

Miroslav Trninic
Miroslav Trninic

Reputation: 3455

Every new class, in order to be used in Laravel, has to be linked to Application. It can be done in more then one way:

Through class map
With namespacing
By its path

In that sense there is no simple classes. All classes can become a part of Laravel Application flow, if they are referenced correctly with composer.

UPDATE TO MY ANSWER:

Here is a link to best resource that explaines facades.

Upvotes: 2

Ferrakkem Bhuiyan
Ferrakkem Bhuiyan

Reputation: 2783

Try doing this, it should solve your problem:

ClassLoader::addDirectories(array(
    app_path().'/commands',
    app_path().'/controllers',
    app_path().'/models',
    app_path().'/database/seeds',
    app_path().'/classes', //we added this
    ));

Upvotes: 1

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