Custom controllers in UserFrosting

Question

I have been trying to create a custom controller that extends UserFrosting's BaseController and then call it's method from index.php. Seems simple, but so far I am highly unsuccessful. I am new to UserFrosting, hence I am most likely missing something obvious.

controllers/LGController.php:

<?php
namespace UserFrosting;
class LGController extends \UserFrosting\BaseController {
    public function __construct($app){
        $this->_app = $app;
    }

    public function lgRequestsList(){
        $groups = array('Luke #1', 'Luke #2');
            $this->_app->render('lg-request-list.twig', [
                "groups" => $groups
            ]);
    }
}

index.php:

...
    use UserFrosting as UF;

    $app->get('/lg/requests/?', function () use ($app) {
        $controller = new UF\LGController($app);
        return $controller->lgRequestsList();
    }); 
...

Error:

[Wed Nov 09 15:25:40 2016] [warn] [client 160.34.126.11] mod_fcgid: stderr: Fatal error (1) in /home2/test/public_html/index.php on line 66: Class 'UserFrosting\\LGController' not found, referer: http://xxx.co.uk/groups/g/1/auth

also.. you don't need the constructor as it will be inherited from the base controller.. you need a custom constructor only if you have custom properties for your class — Mihai Matei, Nov 09 '16 at 15:29
There was a wrong path in the include. MANY THANKS. All good now :) — Luke G, Nov 09 '16 at 15:38
do NOT use `include`. UserFrosting uses Composer to autoload classes. — alexw, Nov 09 '16 at 16:30

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 09 '16 at 16:29

Don't use include to include your new controller class. UserFrosting uses Composer to autoload your files.

Once you install Composer globally, all you need to do is run composer dump-autoload in your userfrosting/ subdirectory, and it will add the new class for you.

Custom controllers in UserFrosting

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