PHP adding custom namespace using autoloader from composer

Question

Here is my folder structure:

Classes
  - CronJobs
    - Weather
      - WeatherSite.php

I want to load WeatherSite class from my script. Im using composer with autoload:

$loader = include(LIBRARY .'autoload.php');
$loader->add('Classes\Weather',CLASSES .'cronjobs/weather');
$weather = new Classes\Weather\WeatherSite();

Im assuming the above code is adding the namespace and the path that namespace resolves to. But when the page loads I always get this error:

 Fatal error: Class 'Classes\Weather\WeatherSite' not found

Here is my WeatherSite.php file:

namespace Classes\Weather;

class WeatherSite {

    public function __construct()
    {

    }

    public function findWeatherSites()
    {

    }

}

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

You actually don't need custom autoloader, you can use PSR-4.

Update your autoload section in composer.json:

"autoload": {
    "psr-4": {
        "Classes\\Weather\\": "Classes/CronJobs/Weather"
    }
}

To explain: it's {"Namespace\\\": "directory to be found in"}

Don't forget to run composer dump-autoload to update Composer cache.

Then you can use it like this:

include(LIBRARY .'autoload.php');

$weather = new Classes\Weather\WeatherSite();