Autoload Classmap in Laravel 4

Question

I have a:

// administration
app/controller/admin/ProjectsController.php

And I want use too:

// public in website
app/controller/ProjectsController.php

But, in autoload_classmap.php, it's registred like that:

'ProjectsController' => 'app/controller/admin/ProjectsController'

So, If I want one more 'ProjectsController' for public views, how I need to do?
What is better? 2 controllers (admin and public), or one (hybrid).

Thanks.

Aran · Answer 1 · 2013-01-25T10:40:45.767

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You should namespace your Admin controllers.

That way it'll match up to PSR and autoloader will treat them differently.

namespace Admin;

At the top of your admin files.

Edit:

It may even be worth namespacing all your controllers and models.

So for your ProjectController in app\controllers you could put

namespace ProjectName

Then for everything in subfolders, e.g. app\controllers\admin

namespace ProjectName\Admin

and so on for other folders, and files.

This'll reduce the likely hood of your code clashing with anything else.

Edit: Edit:

After namespacing classes you'll need to reference classes and functions that are outside your namespace. For example Controller belongs to the global namespace so you put \ at the start of Controller.

The documentation here should help out a lot. PHP Namespaces

edited Jan 25 '13 at 10:40

answered Jan 24 '13 at 10:24

Aran

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Doesn't work.FatalErrorException: Error: Class 'PatrickMaciel\Admin\Controller' not found in .... – Patrick Maciel Jan 24 '13 at 15:44
Did you do a ```composer update```? Can you also provide a paste of your controllers? – Aran Jan 24 '13 at 16:34
composer update, or composer dump-autoload? Update is for update (like git pull right?). – Patrick Maciel Jan 24 '13 at 16:37
Strange. When I run composer update, composer connect with git and composer packages for check updates... – Patrick Maciel Jan 24 '13 at 18:48
I've forked your gist and updated your code, it now all works :) – Aran Jan 25 '13 at 10:38
For update autoload classmap you need to run : `composer dump-autoload` as say in blue here: http://four.laravel.com/docs/controllers – Pierre Broucz Jan 29 '13 at 16:50

Autoload Classmap in Laravel 4

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