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Hello TastyIgniter Community,

I’ve recently encountered an issue with my TastyIgniter installation that I hope to get some clarification on. After setting up TastyIgniter for my project, I ran into a “Call to undefined function” error related to the name_to_array function, which I discovered is defined in app/system/helpers/support_helper.php. Upon investigating, I noticed that this helper file was not included in Composer’s autoload_files.php, leading to the function not being recognized in the global namespace.

To resolve the issue, I manually added the support_helper.php file to the autoload section of my composer.json like so:

"autoload": {
    "files": [
        "app/system/helpers/support_helper.php"
    ]
}

And then ran the installation steps again which include composer install, which successfully fixed the error and made the name_to_array function available globally.

Before I proceed further, I wanted to ask the community and the maintainers:

Is this manual addition to the composer.json file an intended step that perhaps I missed in the documentation?
Or could it be possible that there was an oversight in the autoload configuration in the TastyIgniter setup that I received?
I’m keen to understand whether my installation process might have missed a crucial step or if this is something that others have experienced and addressed in a similar manner.

Thank you in advance for your insights and assistance.
Best regards,
Liem

    2 months later

    That is one way to solve it and nothing wrong with this approach.

    However I could find that in app/system/ServiceProvider.php in register() method, they have already called includeHelpers() function which includes helpers.
    So you should not need to add autoload in composer.json