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Integrate third party library like unirest.io/php.html - burebista - 03-21-2017

How to integrate in codeigniter 3

third party library like http://unirest.io/php.html

without using composer

thank you

RE: Integrate third party library like unirest.io/php.html - ciadmin - 03-21-2017

Figured this out through experimentation Smile

1) Download the Unirest repo.
2) Copy its src folder into your application/libraries, resulting in Unirest.php and the Unirest folder there.
3) Modify application/libraries/Unirest.php, adding a bogus class to make CI happy

Code:
<?php

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Unirest/Exception.php';

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Unirest/Method.php';

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Unirest/Response.php';

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Unirest/Request.php';

require_once dirname(__FILE__) . '/Unirest/Request/Body.php';

// bogus class to make CI happy

class Unirest {

}

4) You should now be able to use the conventional CI loader ... $this->load->library('unirest'); and then use the package per the Unirest docs Big Grin

RE: Integrate third party library like unirest.io/php.html - burebista - 03-22-2017

worked great, thank you,

i thought all this files must be inside third_party, i was confused.
So any libraries , external, shoud go inside app../libraries/
regards

RE: Integrate third party library like unirest.io/php.html - ciadmin - 03-22-2017

Unirest could have been bundled as a package too, in which case it would have gone inside application/third_party.

If you write a *library* that wraps an external "package", that would go inside application/libraries.
If you write a *package* that wraps an external "package", that would go inside application/third_party.
These are two different ways of achieving a similar effect.

If the external "package" includes classes, models and views, it would be better as a *package*.
Unirest was simple enough that I kept it as a library.

RE: Integrate third party library like unirest.io/php.html - burebista - 03-22-2017

i got it now, thank you for the explanation