SteveEdson/bitbar-php

and where is this require ".bitbar/vendor/autoload.php"; ?

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Deleted user commented

Where did this vendor directory come from?
Where is this autoload.php and what does it do?
Why do you include a composer.json and tell us to add a new one with a different content?

These are the worse instructions Jesus https://github.com/SteveEdson/bitbar-php.

Deleted user commented

I wish this wasn't free so we could pay for proper instructions.

SteveEdson commented

I'd recommend reading https://scotch.io/tutorials/a-beginners-guide-to-composer to help you understand what composer is, and how to use it. But basically:

  • Composer is a package manager for PHP (like node.js has NPM, Python has pip, Ruby has gem etc)
  • You define the packages you want to use, in your project's composer.json file, for example, steveedson/bitbar-php
  • When you run composer install, the packages are downloaded into your /vendor directory
  • This directory also includes a autoload.php file, that you can require in order to start using the Bitbar classes provided in this repo

The composer.json file in this repo is used to specify what my dependencies are, and to tell packagist (the place where PHP composer projects are stored), how the project is set up, and named etc.

Hope this helps.

I wish this wasn't free so we could pay for proper instructions.

Feel free to donate at https://www.paypal.me/steveedson

Thanks!

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