Add PHP libraries to Laravel 5 projects
If you want to add an additional PHP library in your Laravel 5 projects just follow these two steps:
1. Add the library with composer
For example, here we add the Facebook SDK library:
$ composer require facebook/php-sdk-v4
2. Just use it in your PHP code
The library you added via composer is autoloaded in your project so you can now use it in you PHP code.
Here we are using the Facebook
class, added with the Facebook’s library, into a PHP file in the Laravel project:
<?php
namespace App;
class MyExampleClass
{
public function facebookMethod()
{
$fb = new \Facebook\Facebook([
'app_id' => '{app-id}',
'app_secret' => '{app-secret}',
'default_graph_version' => 'v2.2',
]);
// ...
}
}
That’s all.
References
https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/general-discussion/using-non-laravel-composer-package-with-laravel
http://wern-ancheta.com/blog/2015/05/09/getting-started-with-lumen/
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Ahsan Abdul Jabbar