ZF2 + doctrine without composer - php

Question

I have a working ZF2 (skeleton) application and want to integrate Doctrine.
I have downloaded the 2 modules (DoctrineModule and DoctrineORMModule) from github as I'm unable to use composer (so please don't answer with; "get composer").
After hours of trying to find the problem I keep getting the following error:
Fatal error: Class 'Doctrine\Common\Annotations\AnnotationRegistry' not found in doctrine/DoctrineModule/src/DoctrineModule/Module.php on line 54.
I have spend hours of searching and trying to debug but I can't find a way to fix it. Please help me.

Answer 1

DoctrineORMModule does not explicitly support autoloading without composer (since it's a mess).
As of current (0.7.*) version of DoctrineORMModule, the required packages are following:
doctrine/common (2.3.0)
doctrine/dbal (2.3.2)
symfony/console (v2.1.7)
doctrine/orm (2.3.2)
doctrine/doctrine-module (0.7.*)
doctrine/doctrine-orm-module (0.7.0)
What you can do is defining all the autoloading namespaces in init_autoloader.php in your skeleton application (explaining the mess). The code to replace is the part about the autoloader factory:
Zend\Loader\AutoloaderFactory::factory(array(
'Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader' => array(
'autoregister_zf' => true,
'namespaces' => array(
'Doctrine\Common' => __DIR__ . '/vendor/doctrine/common',
'Doctrine\DBAL' => __DIR__ . '/vendor/doctrine/dbal',
'Symfony\Console' => __DIR__ . '/vendor/symfony/console',
'DoctrineModule' => __DIR__ . '/vendor/doctrine/doctrine-module',
'DoctrineORMModule' => __DIR__ . '/vendor/doctrine/doctrine-orm-module',
),
),
));
You will have to configure the various git submodules on your own
As of version 0.8.* of the modules, the dependencies will increase quite a bit because of how doctrine/common was splitted recently, so consider finding a solution to start using composer or you will just be delaying huge problems in future.
This solution should work for now.

Answer 2

Try to edit the following method in the Module.php of the Application module:
public function getAutoloaderConfig()
{
return array(
'Zend\Loader\StandardAutoloader' => array(
'namespaces' => array(
__NAMESPACE__ => __DIR__ . '/src/' . __NAMESPACE__,
'Doctrine' => //Path where your doctrine dist resides
),
),
);
}
There is no need to define autoloading configuration for DoctrineModule and DoctrineORMModule because this are ZF2 modules and are providing autoloading configuration already.

Answer 3

Form annotations require Doctrine\Common, which contains an annotation parsering engine. The simplest way to install Doctrine\Common is if you are using Composer; simply update your composer.json and add the following line to the require section:
"doctrine/common": ">=2.1",
Then run php composer.phar update to install the dependency.
If you’re not using Composer, visit the Doctrine project website for more details on installation.