Autoloading¶
The framework’s autoload is managed by Composer. By default, the LightMVC Framework uses PSR-4 compliant
autoloading. To add new namespaces within a LightMVC application, it is necessary to declare these namespace
mappings within the application’s composer.json
file. For example, here are the namespaces of the
LightMVC Skeleton Application:
"autoload": {
"psr-4": {
"Application\\Models\\": "models/Application/Models",
"Application\\Middleware\\": "middleware/Application/Middleware",
"Application\\Controllers\\": "controllers/Application/Controllers",
"Application\\Services\\": "controllers/Application/Services",
"Specialmodule\\Controllers\\": "controllers/Specialmodule/Controllers"
}
},
Therefore, adding new namespaces is simply a question of adding new entries in this part of the file and running the following command from a CLI:
$ composer update
Note
A PSR-4 autoloader class is available within the framework if you wish to use configuration files instead of Composer’s autoloading capabilities.