Laravel: How to include file from Vendor folder in Laravel

Question

I am trying to include the YouTube Analytics Service of Google but I can not access it through the Vendor folder.

include(app_path.'path/to/analytics/Google_YoutubeAnalyticsService.php')

It is not working, because it defaults to the App folder.

How can I get out of the App folder and into the Vendor folder (where the YouTube Analytics file is at)?

The error is {

include(C:\xampp\htdocs\mysite\app/path/to/analytics/Google_YoutubeAnalyticsService.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory

Answer 1

From where do you want to include that file ?

Place a reference to your file in composer.json autoload object:

"autoload": {
    "files":["your_file_path"]
}

Run composer dumpautoload, and you'll have your file :)

Answer 2

Actually you have in the helpers function the path so basically the function base_path give the direction to the root of your project so

echo base_path() . '/vendor';

Should be the route to your vendor folder.

You can se all the documentation in Helper Functions Laravel

Be sure that you are seeing the documentation of the laravel version that you are using (I put the link for the 4.2 version).