Organizing Laravel and autoloading sub directories

Question

I am wanting to structure my laravel app in a way that all of my code is under the src directory. My project structure would look something like the below. How would I do this where I can still call Route::get('accounting/item/{id}','AccountingItemController@getId')

I am wanting to avoid adding every module under src to the ClassLoader. Is there a way to tell the class loader to load all sub-directories under the parent directory src?

app
app/src
app/src/accounting
app/src/accounting/controllers
app/src/accounting/models
app/src/accounting/repos
app/src/accounting/interfaces
app/src/job
app/src/job/controllers
app/src/job/models
app/src/job/repos
app/src/job/interfaces

Answer 1

Yes, it's called PSR-0.

You should namespace all of your code. Typically you'll have a vendor name that you'll use a the top level namespace. Your application structure should then look something like this.

app/src/Vendor/Accounting/Controllers
app/src/Vendor/Job/Controllers

Your controllers will then be namespaced accordingly.

namespace Vendor\Accounting\Controllers;

And when using them in routes.

Route::get('accounting/item/{id}','Vendor\Accounting\Controllers\ItemController@getId');

Lastly, you can register your namespace with Composer in your composer.json.

"autoload": {
    "psr-0": {
        "Vendor": "app/src"
    }
}

Of course, if you don't want that top level Vendor namespace you can remove it, but you'll need to register each component as PSR-0.

"autoload": {
    "psr-0": {
        "Accounting": "app/src",
        "Job": "app/src",
    }
}

Once done, run composer dump-autoload once and you should be able to add new controllers, models, libraries, etc. Just make sure the directory structure aligns with the namespacing of each file.

Answer 2

Do you have composer installed? You should use this:

composer dump-autoload

But you can could add directories to the Laravel's classloader. Check the reference here: http://laravel.com/api/class-Illuminate.Support.ClassLoader.html