Where to register autoload when the vendor is not managed with composer in Symfony 2.1? - symfony-2.1

Question

I'm using symfony 2.1 and I want to add a library to vendors. The library do not exists in packagist. I can't manage it with composer. When I install bundles or others vendors through composer, it manage autoload for me. But where to register autoload when the vendor is not managed with composer?

Answer 1

You can add libraries to composer that are not in packagist.
You must add them in the repositories array of your composer.json file.
Here's how to load a github repository that has a composer.json file, even though it's not on packagist (for example a fork you would have done to fix a repository) : http://getcomposer.org/doc/02-libraries.md#publishing-to-a-vcs
And here's how to load a library that's on a git/svn repository, or a zip file : http://getcomposer.org/doc/05-repositories.md#types
An example using various possibilities:
{
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "http://github.com/igorw/monolog"
},
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"name": "smarty/smarty",
"version": "3.1.7",
"dist": {
"url": "http://www.smarty.net/files/Smarty-3.1.7.zip",
"type": "zip"
},
"source": {
"url": "http://smarty-php.googlecode.com/svn/",
"type": "svn",
"reference": "tags/Smarty_3_1_7/distribution/"
},
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"libs/"
]
}
}
}
],
"require": {
"monolog/monolog": "dev-bugfix",
"smarty/smarty": "3.1.*"
}
}

Answer 2

You should be able to use Composer for registering vendor libraries not available via packagist. I'm not entirely sure, but this should work fine:
{
"autoload": {
"psr-0": {
"Acme": "src/",
"MyVendorLib": "vendor/my-vendor/src",
"AnotherLib": "vendor/another-vendor/lib"
}
}
}

Answer 3

You just need to modify your composer.json file for the autoload value:
http://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md#autoload
//composer.json in your symfony 2.1 project
"autoload": {
"psr-0": {
"": "src/",
"YourLibrary": "src/location/of/lib"
}
},
And then in your controller for example:
namespace Acme\UserBundle\Controller;
use Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\Controller\Controller;
use Sensio\Bundle\FrameworkExtraBundle\Configuration\Route;
use YourLibrary\FolderName\ClassName;
class DefaultController extends Controller {
/**
* #Route("/")
* #Template()
*/
public function indexAction()
{
$lib = new ClassName();
$lib->getName();
return array('name' => $name);
}
}