Composer - autoload classes in CodeIgniter outside vendor folder

Question

I've been working on setting up a CodeIgniter project with composer. I'm wanting to include php classes stored in files outside the vendor folder - in a shared folder.

My directory structure:

/
  --application/
  --shared/
    -application/
       -class1.php
       -class2.php
       -class3.php
    -base/
       -classb1.php
  --vendor/
  --composer.json
  --composer.lock

Looking at the composer documentation , I see there is an autoload property in the root package that I'm trying to use to load the classes in the shared directory. These classes aren't namespaced.

My composer.json file is as follows:

{
    "description" : "The CodeIgniter Application with Composer",
    "require": {
        "php": ">=5.3.2",
        "codeigniter/framework": "3.1.*"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "mikey179/vfsStream": "1.1.*"
    },
    "autoload":{
       "psr-0":{
           "":"shared/application/",
           "":"shared/base/",
           "":"shared/data/"
        }
    }
}

My search led me to this question , but the classes are still not being loaded. I've ran composer update on the terminal.

Answer 1

Well after looking further, there's a property called classmap ( documentation ) in the root package.

"autoload":{
    "classmap":["shared/application/","shared/base/", "shared/data/"]
}

This loads all the required files in the folders.