Correct. That's basic PHP namespaces knowledge though. Here's a couple of resources you should read up before dealing with namespaces:
The manual (obviously): http://php.net/manual/en/language.namespaces.php Namespaces in 120 seconds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1kDT8YFAhI Marco Pivetta http://twitter.com/Ocramius http://ocramius.github.com/ On 13 March 2013 19:14, Brad Waite <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to use the 3rd-party PHPExcel package in my ZF2 application. > The distribution ships with the following > directory structure: > > /Classes > PHPExcel.php > /PHPExcel > [PSR-0 classes here] > > In ZF1, I put the contents of the Classes dir in /library: > > /library > PHPExcel.php > /PHPExcel > [classes] > > In my application/Bootstrap.php's _initAutoload() I simply added > $loader->registerNamespace('PHPExcel') and the classes > were now available throughout my application. I should note that PHPExcel > loads its own autoloader at the top of the > base PHPExcel class. I don't know if that was used or not, but no errors > were tossed with the above configuration under ZF1. > > ZF2's high regard for composer piqued my interest and I found that > PHPExcel is available as a package on Packagist, so I > added it to my composer.json and after a `php composer.phar update`, I had > a /phpoffice/phpexcel tree in /vendor. > > Slick. Very slick. I can understand composer's appeal now. > > I'm now expecting that I can add 'use PHPExcel;' in any file and start > using the library, but the following code tosses > a class-not-found exception: > > $reader = PHPExcel_IOFactory::createReaderForFile('foo.xls'); > > However, when I use '\PHPExcel_IOFactory::', it works. Why do I need to > use an absolute namespace reference, especially > when that class doesn't "live" in '\'? > > What am I missing? > > Thanks, > > Brad > > -- > List: [email protected] > Info: http://framework.zend.com/archives > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > > >
