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[PSR & Standards](/categories/psr-standards) 4. / 5. varunsridharan/php-autoloader ActiveLibrary[PSR & Standards](/categories/psr-standards) varunsridharan/php-autoloader ============================= Lightweight PSR-4 PHP Autoloader Class. 2.6(6y ago)232.6k2[1 PRs](https://github.com/varunsridharan/php-autoloader/pulls)1GPL-3.0-or-laterPHP Since Dec 21Pushed 5y ago1 watchersCompare [ Source](https://github.com/varunsridharan/php-autoloader)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/varunsridharan/php-autoloader)[ RSS](/packages/varunsridharan-php-autoloader/feed)WikiDiscussions main Synced 3d ago READMEChangelog (10)DependenciesVersions (17)Used By (1) PHP Autoloader ============== [](#php-autoloader) Lightweight PSR-4 PHP Autoloader Class. 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To install **PHP\_Autoloader library**, simply: ``` $ composer require varunsridharan/php-autoloader ``` The previous command will only install the necessary files, if you prefer to **download the entire source code** you can use: ``` $ composer require varunsridharan/php-autoloader --prefer-source ``` You can also **clone the complete repository** with Git: ``` $ git clone https://github.com/varunsridharan/php-autoloader.git ``` Or **install it manually**: [Download autoloader.php](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/varunsridharan/php-autoloader/master/src/autoloader.php): ``` $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/varunsridharan/php-autoloader/master/src/autoloader.php ``` Usage ----- [](#usage) ### Arguments [](#arguments) - **`$namespace` :** PHP Namspace To Handle Autoload For - **`$classmap` :** Generated Classmap File. - **`$path` :** Full Path to lookup for php files - **`$options` :** An Array of useful Arguments. - **`$prepend` :** Option to prepend / append current autoloader with exists autoloaders. #### `$options` Arguments [](#options-arguments) ``` array( /** * An Array of Class Namespace to Exclude While Checking for current namespace. * Eg * Main Namespace \Testing\Core * Exclude \Testing\Core\Abstracts */ 'exclude' => false, /** * Custom Option To Quickly Remap A Class File. * If any class added then it will not search. * instead it gets the location from here and loads it. * An Array of class and its file location */ 'mapping' => array(), /** * Set To True / False. */ 'debug' => false, ); ``` ### Example Folder Stucture [](#example-folder-stucture) ``` | - src\ | -- class1\ | --- class1.php | -- class2\ | --- class2.php | --- class3\ | ---- class3.php | - loader.php | - index.php ``` ### `loader.php` SourceCode [](#loaderphp-sourcecode) ``` $autoloader = new \Varunsridharan\PHP\Autoloader('varun',__DIR__.'/src/',array( 'mapping' => array( 'varun\class2\class3\class3' => 'src/class2/class3/class3.php', ) )) ``` ### `index.php` SoruceCode [](#indexphp-sorucecode) ``` require __DIR__.'loader.php'; $class1 = new \varun\class1\class1(); // This file is autoloaded based on the namespace $class2 = new \varun\class1\class2(); // This file is autoloaded based on the namespace $class3 = new \varun\class1\class3(); // This file is loaded using the data from remap array ``` --- šŸ“ Changelog ----------- [](#-changelog) All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. 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