Composer: Support Autoloading Functions and Constants

Created on 7 Mar 2017 · 3Comments · Source: composer/composer

I have this composer package https://github.com/PabloJoan/slack-delete

I do not use any classes to write code. Only functions. I organize my code by putting 1 function in 1 file, organizing these files in folders, and then name space them. Basically following everything in PSR-4 except instead of a Class with namespace, its a Function with namespace.

there is no autoloading feature in composer to support this.

I've had to resort to using "files" to get this to work https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#files .
The issue is that I have to manually add all these files and it can get very lengthy.

See below.
My composer.json:

{
    "autoload": {
        "files": [
            "src/APIURL.php",
            "src/Cli/getToken.php",
            "src/Cli/getUser.php",
            "src/Delete/all.php",
            "src/Delete/channels.php",
            "src/Delete/files.php",
            "src/Delete/groups.php",
            "src/Delete/history.php",
            "src/Delete/ims.php",
            "src/User/get.php"
        ]
    }
}

How would you suggest I manage this better?

Source

PabloJoan

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PHP itself offers no autoloading of functions/constants, so until it does we can't really support that at all. Wrapping in classes definitely is easier, even though it feels a bit silly/redundant that the language makes us do that.

Seldaek on 8 Mar 2017

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Out of pure curiosity, why would you do this? Moving to classes will help with your own sanity as the project expands.

robfrawley on 7 Mar 2017

You might be right. This is an experiment. eventually I would like to see how to implement functional programming in to PHP and seamlessly be part of the php community with composer. I know the sample project I have is not really "functional" right now, but composer supporting autoloaded functions with namespaces will be a huge leap forward.

It follows the same general namespacing rules as the PSR4 for classes, so its not intrusive to existing codebases.

PabloJoan on 8 Mar 2017

Seldaek on 8 Mar 2017

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