Composer breaks exisiting autoload in Codeigniter

[eluser]coderego[/eluser]
Adrian Walls,

That should work....but it doesn't. is there any pathing considerations maybe?

composer.json is in the project root.
application is a folder in the root.


{

"autoload": {
"classmap": ["application/core"]
},

"require": {
"php": ">=5.3.0",
"illuminate/database": "*"
}


}