Mike's Blog
RedBean Models with Composer
I've finally got to the point where I want to use custom model classes with the RedBean ORM. I personally think this sure speaks volumes for the technology after already using it for various projects for around a year because, as a result, it's reconfirming it's ability to provide 'schemaless' development compared to other ORM technologies. (See DBIx::Class, Doctrine, ActiveRecord etc). Being a Composer convert I automatically wanted to have my models residing in a 'namespaced location' inside my (Empathy) web apps so that they could be auto loaded for me. Although I appreciate the RedBean creator's views on namespaces in PHP, because I think less is often more, I've simply always been a fan, especially since I started to use Composer and becoming aware of the PSR 0 autoloading standard. So assuming I have some 'Acme' components in my web app I would declare them according to the composer documentation as such:
{
"autoload": {
"psr-0": {"Acme": "src/"}
}
}