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Sean Darren Dawn
Sean Darren Dawn

Reputation: 33

PHP File Include

I have searched the forums already, but none of the solutions have seemed to help me.

Basically I have just installed and created a package using composer. I need to autoload the classes, sounds pretty standard.

I followed all the instructions, and have added this line of code to my script:

require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';

The vendor folder is located in the root folder of my server, here:

/root/vendor/autoload.php

So, I added

:/root

To my PHP ini file so that PHP searches in the root folder when looking for includes. I thought that should work but it's not :(

My PHP ini file now looks like this:

.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/root

The error message I am getting is this:

[14-Jul-2014 16:46:29 Europe/London] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'vendor/autoload.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/root') in /home/owned/public_html/trythis/ow_plugins/oftokbox/bol/service.php on line 38

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1613

Answers (1)

Sven
Sven

Reputation: 70863

You implicitly state you are using Composer for a project. By doing so you must have a composer.json file somewhere. And Composer will create a vendor folder directly in the folder containing this file.

So if you also have a file index.php in the folder containing the composer.json, to include the autoloader you would use require 'vendor/autoload.php';.

If however you follow some security guidelines and have a dedicated folder containing public files, then the file would for example be called public/index.php, and for this file to reach the autoloader, the relative path would be require '../vendor/autoload.php';.

Composer cannot give a one-instructions-fits-all direction because it depends on which folder structure you have. But including the composer autoloader is just the same task as including any other file with a relative path.

Upvotes: 1

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