Moving default AppBundle under vendor - php

I have a new symfony project. By default it contains
-/AppBundle
-AppBundle.php
--/Controller
--/Default Controller
Since I am going to have more bundles I would like it to be under a VendorName called MyProject where I have my ApiBundle.
I have tried moving AppBundle manually, then changing namespaces in the files, yml files and AppKernel. But I still get an error
Expected to find class "AppBundle\AppBundle" in file "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/healthy-living/src/HealthyLiving/AppBundle/AppBundle.php" while importing services from resource "../../src/HealthyLiving/AppBundle/*", but it was not found! Check the namespace prefix used with the resource.' in /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/healthy-living/vendor/symfony/symfony/src/Symfony/Component/DependencyInjection/Loader/FileLoader.php:133
Is there any console commands for doing this, if not what should be the procedures of moving it.
Thanks in advance

There's no console command or procedure to do it because it's not what vendor folder was designed for. vendor folder is meant to store 3rd-party code so keeping your own bundles, which you are developing, in vendor is not a good idea.
Since I am going to have more bundles
There is no reason that you can't keep more than one bundle inside your src folder. In fact, when Symfony introduced Bundle system it was very common that src folder contained a lot of bundles.
(note that vendor folder is almost always added to .gitignore - that's because what I wrote before)
EDIT after clarifying what the question is about:
It looks like command to generate bundles has/had some issues with creating bundles without Vendor folder:
Issue
Pull request
I don't know which version of Symfony are you using but either way creating bundle manually is always a good idea and it solves your problem too. (you can create it without vendor name)

You can upload your API bundle to a repository (Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket, etc.) and then import it as an external dependency with Composer.

Since moving was too complicated because of the config files that has to be changed so I decided to do a workaround and remove it and then install via console under the same parent. Works like a charm. Althoug could be a method in cli for this.

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How Symfony container collects vendor classes?

I am working on very old legacy code, mostly procedural. Trying to improve it. Rewriting applications is impossible right now. The plan is to add a few libraries which would help organize things and improve that way.
I added a Symfony dependency-injection component in order to do that. It would provide the possibility to fetch needed services with its dependency easy.
I watched symfonycast tutorial on how to play with container. And with that knowledge, I managed to write a simple loader to start the container and to use services made by me. It is simple, it guesses FQCN based on file path, and then uses reflection to get dependencies. But I can not figure out how to load vendor classes, because here you can not guess namespace that way. :)
The question is: What exactly Symfony uses to load classes from the vendor folder, does it reads composer.json files to see namespaces, does it uses some composer feature, or something else?
Loading classes is different than instancing services.
The first can in fact use regular composer facilities to discover vendored classes in a legacy project like yours, even if they weren't installed with composer. This uses the standard php autoload mechanism with some added magic.
To include the, let's say lib/ legacy directory in the discoverable files you would add the following to composer.json:
"autoload": {
"classmap": ["lib/"]
}
And then run composer dump-autoload. Note that by including vendor/autoload.php in your legacy files you could even forego the require directives for your dependencies and rely on composer as well. This can be a path for migrating them to composer-managed dependencies, too.
Service instancing requires not only being able to locate the classes themselves, but also their respective dependencies so the container can create the object tree automatically. This usually involves hand-writing service definition files: classes in the vendor/ folder are not automatically registered as services. A bundle (or your own definitions) enables support for an specific library.
Take for instance the Mailer component: you can use it as a standalone library, but for framework integration (which includes service definitions and depen) you'd need to install Mailer bundle as well.
The exception where automatic service registration applies (when using symfony framework, not the standalone dependency injection component) is for files under src/. During container compilation, services.yaml is loaded and the ContainerConfigurator with help from FileLoader, looks for *.php files the directories configured as a resource, creating service definitions for them.
I guess you could do a similar thing for your legacy dependencies in a CompilerPass by using a similar technique or by trying to leverage the composer classmap but, specially if your legacy dependencies do not follow a PSR loading standard, I'd advise against it, since it can pull in tests, example files, etc.

Where should I put a custom class file in zend framework 3?

I have created a set of class files that helps to create the route configuration array. I, however, do not know where to put the source files. I browsed around a little and found some answers that suggested I put up the code in packagist and install it via composer, but my classes are relatively small. So, I wanted to ask if there is another way to do it. The files must be accessible in all the modules.
Your application code is organised into modules and lives in module/<Modulename>/src/. If the code is something you might want to reuse in other applications, then it might make more sense to have it as a standalone library that you install via. Composer.
You're code is accessibly through all the application if it is configured in the composer.json's autoload section.
Code structure in ZF is quite simple. You have your modules and in every module you have an src directory. This src directory should have its own namespace. And there you can place your custom route configurator under this namespace, like 'ModuleName\RouteConfigurator'.
But if you use this logic through multiple modules, I suggest you to create a separate module for it. In this case, after a long road, you may consider creating a separate composer package from it. But it's not necessary.
If you're not familiar with defining modules, please read the zend-modulemanager's documentation (https://docs.zendframework.com/zend-modulemanager/intro/)

Where to put things in Laravel 5.1

I'm a bit confused about where something like this belongs to Laravel.
I want to write a web service client wrapper in laravel, and I want to access it like this:
\MyWSClient::getSomeInfoAbout($someId);
then the code will connect to the web service to http://www.someapi.com/api/getSomeInfoAbout?id=$someid&type=json with OAuth2 or some token requests, then fetch the data, keep token information until it expires, refresh token if needed etc.
But where will I put the code? In the vendor directory as a new package? I'm moving this code from a computer to another computer except vendor,storage and node_modules folders, because they are huge and when I do this, I will have to move only one folder in the vendor directory. And I'll need to publish a package under development to composer if I want portability etc.
Is there any other way to do something like this?
I think I've found the answer.
First I needed to use jeroen-g/laravel-packager package to create a new package using artisan console. I could've done that by hand, but I didn't know the required files.
Second, I've created a new package in the packages folder with my desired class name.
Third, I've added the provider and the alias for the class in app.php.
After that, I've created a test method in my controller and wrote a route for that. I called the static method I've written in the SkeletonClass the packager created for me.
And it worked with some tweaking after creation.
I've used php artisan packager:new tpaksu mypackage --i command for an interactive package creation which is cool.
Note: I've just learned the existence of this package, I'm not advertising it :)

PHP, GIT, Location for reusable components

Thanks for your attention, this is a question of organization, I work with PHP and GIT for version control. I use Netbeans IDE to program, GIT integrated (although I am still a rookie).
Normally, I follow the approach that Symfony2 specifies for organize the project files, but I use my own framework for my projects.
The (main) question is: Any component or code part which has its own version control must be located under the /vendor/directory?
For example:
I have my project files in src\Acme\ProjectX\, also the utility package which use all my projects: src\Acme\Util\, and it is under the version control too (GIT).
and now let's remember the basic skeleton of a project based on Symfony or similar:
/app (application related elements)
/src (source code of the project)
/vendor (third party libraries)
/web (front end controller, the web directory, assets resources etc...)
So, Must be 'Acme\Util' included in the vendor directory? And, is necessary to use composer to declare the dependences?
In addition, the Utility package has a lot of classes but only few are used in projects. Must I remove those are not using by the project.
Summarizing, It will be nice if someone can contribute his knowledge for help me to represent an scenario like this.
I hope I could explained...
Thanks in advance!
Vendor directory
It's a good practice to separate external dependencies and the application code. If you are using Composer you can change it to something else.
Unused classes
Unused classes shouldn't matter if they aren't being loaded. They'll just take a bit of extra disc space.
It might be a good idea to separate the Utility package into multiple packages if you find yourself frequently using only a small part of it.
Dependency managers
It isn't necessary to use a dependency manager, but it sure does help. Having to install, configure and maintain everything manually (especially with many dependencies and sub-dependencies) would be a horror.

PHP Composer - How to work with multiple vendors?

The project I'm working on requires using the PHP SDK's from multiple 3rd parties. Two of these are Amazon Web Services and the Google API Client (for Google+), and both of them use Composer to manage their files / dependencies. I'm not sure how to best set it up code / structure wise, though, because I don't need both AWS and Google loaded together. I might need AWS in one area and Google in another, so I don't want to just autoload everything every time and have the additional overhead from libraries I don't need right then. Right now I have the structure set up like this:
awscode.php
googlecode.php
libs
composer.json
composer.lock
vendor
autoload.php
aws
google
So, everything Composer related is in a shared composer.json file, and all vendor files in the single vendor directory. But, I can't seem to find a way to just load up say AWS. It wants me to use the autoload.php from what I can tell, which seems to want to load up everything.
Do I need to set it up more like this if I want control over each library?
awscode.php
googlecode.php
libs
aws
composer.json
composer.lock
vendor
autoload.php
aws
google
composer.json
composer.lock
vendor
autoload.php
google
I'm obviously new to Composer and how to best utilize it, and want to make sure that I am setting it up the best way for both my situation, and for future management.
When using Composer, it only loads the classes when they are actually called in your code. To my knowledge this uses the PHP spl_autoload_register.
So in answer to your question, there won't be a significant extra overhead (if any).
Autoloading means that the file which defines a class gets read when you first use that class.
You should include all your project dependencies in one composer.json, they won't be loaded in files you don't use them in.

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