Add external libraries to Symfony2 project

Question

I am trying to add an external library (PHP Simple DOM Parser, http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/index.htm) to a Symfony2 project. I took a tutorial that explains how to incl

Answer 1

You're trying to register a namespace but your class has no namespace. Try adding a namespace to it or use RegisterPrefixes().

BTW: did you know that one of the Symfony components is basically doing the same thing as php simpledom? It's called DomCrawler and it has a support for both xpath and CSS selectors.

Answer 2

I'm new to Symfony2 but as i can see, you are not respecting the PSR for autoloader.

I'm presumable thinking you should do:

# /vendor/phpsimpledom/lib/Phpsimpledom/Phpsimpledom.php

require_once __DIR__.'/src/simple_html_dom.php';

class Phpsimpledom_Phpsimpledom extends simple_html_dom_node {

}

Note that the correct filename would be /vendor/phpsimpledom/lib/Phpsimpledom/Phpsimpledom.php as the call must include the namespace to work.

Hope it works now.