How to Install and Use the Components

Note

This section is based on Symfony2 documentation.

If you’re starting a new project (or already have a project) that will use one or more components, the easiest way to integrate everything is with Composer. Composer is smart enough to download the component(s) that you need and take care of autoloading so that you can begin using the libraries immediately.

This article will take you through using The MultiTenancy Component, though this applies to using any component.

Using the MultiTenancy Component

1. If you’re creating a new project, create a new empty directory for it.

2. Open a console and use Composer to grab the library.

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composer require swp/multi-tenancy

The name swp/multi-tenancy is written at the top of the documentation for the component.

Tip

Install composer if you don’t have it already present on your system. Depending on how you install, you may end up with a composer.phar file in your directory. In that case, no worries! Just run php composer.phar require swp/multi-tenancy.

3. Write your code!

Once Composer has downloaded the component(s), all you need to do is include the vendor/autoload.php file that was generated by Composer. This file takes care of autoloading all of the libraries so that you can use them immediately.

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<?php
// File example: src/script.php

// update this to the path to the "vendor/"
// directory, relative to this file
require_once __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';

use SWP\Component\MultiTenancy\Context\TenantContext;
use SWP\Component\MultiTenancy\Model\Tenant;

$tenant = new Tenant();
$tenantContext = new TenantContext();

$tenantContext->setTenant($tenant);

var_dump($tenantContext->getTenant());

// ...

Now what?

Now that the component is installed and autoloaded, read the specific component’s documentation to find out more about how to use it.

And have fun!