Comments on: Loading vendor files

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Sat, 21 May 2011 06:19:48 +0000

@steven: I don’t think this is possible because such variables are only visible within the method in which the include happens, i.e. they are only visible in some method of the App class.

To get access to your variable, you have to use include/require directly. See also the documentation about the include function. However, if possible, I would avoid using a variable defined in another file as it makes the code harder to read…

Hope this helps!

By: steven

steven — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:30:05 +0000

Hi,

I am using App::import(‘Vendors’, ‘somevendorfile’); to import a file in my controller, but i am unable to use variable which are used in somevendorfile.php. can anyone help me on this?

Thanks,

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:56:13 +0000

@Calvin: Thanks for your comment!

Yes, this approach should work and it could be handy for including multiple files to avoid having multiple imports. However, I think it is a bit of overkill to use this approach to avoid the 3rd parameter when importing a single file ;-)

By: Calvin

Calvin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:23:28 +0000

When you App::import() a vendor library, does it do anything other than include() the file in your vendors directory? If not, could you simply write a vendor file that contains an include statement (or multiple include statements if your vendor library has multiple dependencies)? This way, you can use App::import(‘Vendors’, ‘my_vendor’) in your application instead of having to using the 3rd parameter or have multiple App::import()s.

By: cakebaker

cakebaker — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:37:50 +0000

@dojo: You can call the import() method wherever you want. Often it is done right before the class definition, e.g.:



Hope that helps!



By: dojo
dojo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:49:28 +0000
and where do i add the code to import the vendor at?
App::import(‘Vendors’, ‘PHPMailer’, array(‘file’ => ‘phpmailer’.DS.’class.phpmailer.php’).



By: cakebaker
cakebaker — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:52:40 +0000
@francis: Thanks for sharing your solution!
An idea to simplify your function is to use CakePHP’s Folder::findRecursive() to get the file names (as a side effect you would also get rid of using the “private” method Configure::__list()).



By: francis
francis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 03:24:49 +0000
correction..


        //store folders in current directory
	$folders = Configure::__list($dir);
	foreach($folders as $folder)
	{
		read_my_dir("{$dir}/{$folder}");
	}


"read_my_dir" was supposed to be "importVendorFolder"


By: francis
francis — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:14:31 +0000
i thought so.. thanks for the suggestion.. i did it and i think it worked fine.. ill post the code here.. maybe it'll be helpful to others too.. :)


// Recursively adds a whole folder as a vendor.
function importVendorFolder($dir)
{
	//store ".php" files in current directory
	$files = Configure::__list($dir, ".php");
	foreach($files as $file)
	{
		//import php file.
		app::import("Vendor", $file);
	}
	//store folders in current directory
	$folders = Configure::__list($dir);
	foreach($folders as $folder)
	{
		read_my_dir("{$dir}/{$folder}");
	}	
}


in here i used the built in cake function "Configure::__list" to check if the file is a folder or a file.. 

and to call it:

//parameter is path to the vendor folder.
importVendorFolder("../vendors/lib");


hope this will be useful to you guys.. :D


By: cakebaker
cakebaker — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:37:35 +0000
@francis: Thanks for your comment!
As far as I know App::import() doesn’t provide such a feature. And so you have to do it manually by looping over the file names of the respective folder and calling App::import() for each file. To make this functionality reusable, you might want to put it into its own method.
Hope that helps!