psr-0

How can I autoload helper functions (outside of any class)? Can I specify in composer.json some kind of bootstrap file that should be loaded first? mpen You can autoload specific files by editing your composer.json file like this: "autoload": { "files": ["src/helpers.php"] } (thanks Kint ) After some tests, I have came to the conclusions that adding a namespace to a file that contains functions, and setting up composer to autoload this file seems to not load this function across all the files that require the autoload path. To synthesize, this will autoload your function everywhere: composer

I have a tiny application that i need an autoloader for. I could easily use the symfony2 class loader but it seems like overkill. Is there a stable extremely lightweight psr-0 autloader out there? Adrien Gibrat You ask extremely lightweight, let's do so ;) Timothy Boronczyk wrote a nice minimal SPL autoloader : http://zaemis.blogspot.fr/2012/05/writing-minimal-psr-0-autoloader.html I condensed the code like this: function autoload1( $class ) { preg_match('/^(.+)?([^\\\\]+)$/U', ltrim( $class, '\\' ), $match ) ); require str_replace( '\\', '/', $match[ 1 ] ) . str_replace( [ '\\', '_' ], '/',

I understand that you can use either a PSR standard to locate files, or tell composer a directory to scan for classes. The documentation recommends using the PSR-4 standard. There is also an option for composer to create an optimized autoloader, which basically generates a full classmap . So why should one use PSR-4 at all if the best way to load is with a classmap? It makes sense to me to keep the directory structure, since that is a good way to organize anyway. However, it seems like the logical option would be to use PSR-4 loading on development machines, and then classmap for the