Should composer classes ever be used in an application? And if so, how?

[NotionCommotion]

This is probably a stupid question.

I wish to get a collection of classes which exist in a given directory, and found this post which directed me to this class, but it is depreciated and appears that this class should now be used.

Great, I have Composer, and all I need to do is call Composer\Autoload\ClassMapGenerator::createMap($pathToDirectory)!

Or do I?  The only files included in vendor/composer are below.

• autoload_classmap.php
• autoload_files.php
• autoload_namespaces.php
• autoload_psr4.php
• autoload_real.php
• autoload_static.php
• ClassLoader.php
• installed.json
• installed.php
• InstalledVersions.php
• LICENSE
• platform_check.php

I expect this is due to how I installed composer globally.

Should composer classes ever be used in an application other than for dependency management?  Or should I just create my own class for this need?

[kicken]

You can use composer stuff, you'd just need to add the "composer/composer" package as a requirement to your project.

If all you need is the class map stuff, that is it's own component (composer/class-map-generator) so you could include just it instead.

 

[NotionCommotion]

Thanks kicken,  Yep, a stupid question and I wasn't thinking.