Alternative installation methods

Alternatives to Composer installation

Note: Is highly recommended to use Composer to install and update this PHP package instead.

If you don't want to use Composer (or you are not able to), you can follow this instructions to install this package into your vendor directory as nelson6e65/php_nml.

Before installing

This instructions assumes that your current directory is your project root directory. Use cd command as you need. Ejample:

cd /var/www/html/my-awesome-php-project

Also, if not already created, create your vendor directory:

mkdir vendor

Installing

Via git submodule

Note: Git is required.

git submodule add https://github.com/nelson6e65/php_nml.git vendor/nelson6e65/php_nml
git submodule init
git submodule update

Finally, install dependencies manually (see below).

Read more about Git submodules here.

Manually

• Download the latest release.
• Unzip that download.
• Rename the resulting folder to php_nml.
• Then move this folder into your vendor/nelson6e65 directory.
• Install dependencies manually (see below).

Install dependencies

Instructions are similar to this. You must follow the specific instructions for Cake Utility in https://github.com/cakephp/utility and install latest release (3.0.x).

For consistence, you should use your vendor/cakephp/utility directory to install it.

After install, you must to load Cake\Utility\Text class, including Text.php directly or register an autoloader for that classes.

This is an autoloader example for Cake\Utility namespace (if installed in your vendor directory as cakephp/utility).

<?php
// File: vendor/autoload_nml_dependencies.php
// Cake\Utility location: vendor/cakephp/utility

function autoload_nml_dependencies($class)
{
    static $DS = DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;

    if ($class[0] == '\\') {
        $class = substr($class, 1);
    }

    $classArray = explode('\\', $class);

    if ($classArray[0] == 'Cake') {
        $classArray[0] = 'cakephp';
        if ($classArray[1] == 'Utility') {
            $classArray[1] = 'utility';
        } else {
            // Is not a 'Cake\Utility' namespace.
            return;
        }
    } else {
        // Is not a 'Cake' namespace.
        return;
    }

    $path = sprintf('%s'.$DS.'%s.php', __DIR__, implode($DS, $classArray));

    if (is_file($path)) {
        require_once($path);
    } else {
        // throw new InvalidArgumentException("Error loading '$class' class. File '$path' is not present.");

    }
}

spl_autoload_register('autoload_nml_dependencies');
?>