Below are steps that have been working for me when using 3rd party libraries in a Laravel 4 project.
The first step is to add a repository to composer.json:
"repositories": [
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"name": "netboy/Image_Iptc",
"version": "master",
"source": {
"url": "https://github.com/netboy/Image_Iptc.git",
"type": "git",
"reference": "master"
}
}
}
], |
This will allow us to require the library in composer.json:
"require": {
...
"netboy/Image_Iptc": "dev-master"
}, |
Finally we should add the lib to the autoload section:
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
...
"vendor/netboy/Image_Iptc/Iptc.php"
]
}, |
And update dependencies:
composer update |