Having a hard time including a PHP class

[yoursurrogategod]

Hello all, this is what I have for a class that I'm working on.

<?php

include_once "../FTP/FTP.php";

/**
* Fax.php:
* This is a utility to fax documents using FTP.
*/
class Lifespan_Fax_Fax extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract {
    /**
     * This is where we will keep the FTP connection object alive.
     * @var object FTP
     */
    private $ftpConnection;
    
    public function __construct($server = '', $port = '', $username = '',
        $password = '') {
        
        if (('' == $server) || ('' == $port) || ('' == $username) ||
            ('' == $password)) {
            $server   = 'ftpofdoom.org';
            $port     = '10081';
            $username = 'cookies';
            $password = 'chips';
        }
        
        $this->ftpConnection = new FTP($server, $port, $username, $password);
    }
    
    public function send($directory, $filename, $data) {
        $this->ftpConnection->writeToFTPServer($directory, $filename, $data);
    }
}

I'm doing this in Zend Studio 9 (our dev environment) and I call new FTP, it says that the FTP class is not found.  The class exists in one directory up and in the FTP directory there.  Basically this:

library/
  FTP/
    FTP.php
  Fax/
    Fax.php

What am I doing wrong?

 

P.S.: No, that is not the legit URL, username or password.  You can go there, but I have no idea what you will see .

[cpd]

The FTP class should be included with a path relative to the file including the Fax file.

 

In other words if you have a file structure as:

 

Library/

    MyFoo/

        Foo.php

    MyBar/

        Bar.php

Test.php

 

Bar.php

 

<?php

include '../MyFoo/Foo.php';

?>

 

Test.php

 

<?php

include 'Library/MyBar/Bar.php';

?>

 

An error will occur because Test.php will go back a directory into LibraryParent/ then try to find a directory called MyFoo/ in there so the overal relative link Test.php searches for via Bar.php is LibraryParent/MyFoo/Foo.php which doesn't exist.

 

That's why your error is cropping up.

[KevinM1]

Why are you including files manually?  Zend Framework should have an autoloader of some kind.

[yoursurrogategod]

Why are you including files manually?  Zend Framework should have an autoloader of some kind.

All I know is that when I mouse over new FTP, I see a little message popping up stating: Class 'FTP' not found

[KevinM1]

Ah, my mistake.  I thought you said Zend Framework, not Zend Studio.

 

That said, PHP has built-in autoload capabilities.  __autoload is the classic variant, while spl_autoload_register is the more modern version.  Both work well.  When writing OO code, you should never need to write include statements for your classes.